Beryl Markham
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Beryl Markham (October 26, 1902 - August 3, 1986), was a British author and adventurer.
She was born Beryl Clutterbuck in England. At the age of three her parents moved to Kenya, which was then British East Africa, where she spent an adventurous childhood playing and hunting with native Africans, and, on her family's farm, developing a knowledge of and affection for horses.
As a young adult, she trained horses, becoming the first licensed female horse trainer in Kenya. Later she took up flying becoming a bush pilot and the first woman to fly the Atlantic east to west. These experiences were chronicled in her critically acclaimed memoir, West With The Night, published in 1942 (although some have questioned whether Markham was, in fact, the author of this work).
After living for many years in the United States, Markham moved back to Kenya in 1952, becoming for a time the most successful horse trainer in the country before her death in 1986.
External links
- Beryl Markham page at www.karenblixen.com (http://www.karenblixen.com/beryl.html) .de:Beryl Markham