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Authors: Beryl Markham
West with the Night (35 page)
Markham with her horse Blue Brook at Naro Maro, Kenya, in 1958.
“She will do whatever is asked of her, as she always has done. She turns her head, nudging me, speaking to me—do not worry; I will run. As long as these legs will bear me up, I will run.”
Markham’s Jockey Club trainer’s license, 1967–68.
“I am incapable of a profound remark on the workings of destiny. It seems to get up early and then go to bed very late, and it acts most generously toward the people who nudge it off the road whenever they meet it.”
Markham’s “B” license from 1933—the eleventh such license issued in the colony and the first issued to a woman.
“A ‘B’ license is a flyer’s Magna Carta—it delivers him from the bondage of apprenticeship; it frees him to make a living.”
A page from Markham’s log book detailing the Assuit to Naples section of one of the four solo flights she made from Nairobi to London.
“No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things—the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold—were false to you.”
Tom Campbell Black, Markham’s flight instructor and friend, who was killed in an aircraft collision while she made her historic solo flight across the Atlantic. She kept this picture by her side until her death.
“If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
Markham in 1986.
“All this happened, and if some of it was hard for me to believe, I had my log-books and my pound of scraps and papers to prove it to myself—memory in ink. It was only needed that someone should say, ‘You ought to write about it, you know. You really ought!’”
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copyright © 1942, 1983 by Beryl Markham
cover design by Mimi Bark
978-1-4532-3791-5
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