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Beryl Markham (born Clutterbuck; 26 October 1902 – 3 August 1986) was a Kenyan aviator born in England (one of the first bush pilots), adventurer, racehorse trainer and author. She was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America. She wrote about her adventures in her memoir, West with the Night.
978-0-86547-118-4. West with the Night is a 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa) in the early 1900s, leading to celebrated careers as a racehorse trainer and bush pilot there. It is considered a classic of outdoor literature and was included in the United States' Armed Services ...
Denys George Finch-Hatton MC (24 April 1887 – 14 May 1931) was a British aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen von Blixen (also known by her pen name, Isak Dinesen), a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her autobiographical book Out of Africa, first published in 1937. In the book, his name is hyphenated: "Finch ...
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun is a 1988 American-British TV mini-series starring Stefanie Powers and Jack Thompson. It was directed by Tony Richardson and was written by journalist James Fox and screenwriter Allan Scott, based on interviews Fox conducted when researching White Mischief.
Mansfield Markham gave his wife the surname by which she is now best known to history, and the financial support to engage in the new occupation for which she is now probably best-known, thus helping to create the persona of the aviator, or aviatrix as was the style of the time: Beryl Markham. [3] The couple had a son, Gervase Markham. [1]
Parent (s) Hugh Milner Black and Alice Jean McCullough. Tom Campbell Black (December 1899 – 19 September 1936) was an English aviator. Florence Desmond & Campbell Black. He was the son of Alice Jean McCullough and Hugh Milner Black. He became a world-famous aviator when he and C. W. A. Scott won the London to Melbourne Centenary Air Race in 1934.
Others included Gilbert Colvile, Hugh Dickenson, Jack and Nina Soames, Lady June Carberry (stepmother of Juanita Carberry), Dickie Pembroke, and Julian Lezzard. Author Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) was a friend of members of the group, and writer and pilot Beryl Markham associated frequently with the Happy Valley set. [citation needed]
The Vega Gull VP-KCC named "Messenger" was used by Beryl Markham on her transatlantic flight on 4-5 September 1936; this was the first non-stop solo crossing by a woman, and the first east-to-west solo crossing. [4] [5] Two early production Vega Gulls were entered in the Schlesinger Race from England to Johannesburg, South Africa.