![]() ![]() One interesting side note: her stories tell us much more about Bror Blixen, the husband of Karen Blixen, than did "Out of Africa." I note from other reviews there is some question whether this book was ghost-written by her husband who was a Hollywood screenwriter. Hers is an adventurous and unusual story: growing up as a small child on an African farm in the 1920's, making her living in the 1930's training race horses in Kenya and then flying planes for safari hunters, followed by her "West with the Night" story when she made the first solo trans-Atlantic flight from England to North America in 1936. "Wishful thinking often smothers reason" is another. ![]() "I managed to overcome my education" is one that comes to mind. She makes you feel you're there with her-whether hunting wild animals, watching a championship horse race or flying in search of a downed pilot, and her descriptions and comments are clever, original and memorable. Her writing style is spare, to the point, without gush, brooding or emotional baggage. Ernest Hemingway is on record praising the writing quality of Beryl Markham's book. ![]()
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