Beryl Markham: Never Turn Back (Barnard Biography Series) | Catherine Gourley

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	Beryl Markham: Never Turn Back (Barnard Biography Series) Catherine Gourley Red Wheel / Weiser, 1997 - 168 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Never Turn Back takes the reader on a journey into Kenya's past and into the life of one of this century's great adventurers-aviator Beryl Markham. Abandoned by her mother at the age of four, Markham grew up a white child in a land of lions and leopards, Masai and Kipsigis warriors. She learned early from the land and the father she idolized--but could never quite please--that the sentimental and the weak do not survive in Africa.

Beryl Markham: Never Turn Back

If you have never heard of Beryl Markham, let me tell you, you're in for a wild ride ahead. I first became acquainted with her when reading her book "West with the Night". Immediately fascinated, I then went about searching for anything and everything about this enchantress, and have read many more books about her by now. She lived in Kenya, flew a gypsy-moth over the Atlantic, knew Baroness Karen Blixen/aka Isak Dinesen, had an alliance with the lovable Denys Finch-Hatton of Out of Africa fame, trained horses, made a splash in Hollywood and so much more ... there is never a dull moment when you are reading about Beryl! Very magnetic personality, even when you have met her only in books!

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