Beryl Markham has chronicled her many adventures in this memoir, West with the Night, published in 1942. Markham is often described as “the first person” to fly the Atlantic east to west in a solo non-stop flight. When she decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, no pilot had yet flown non-stop from Europe to New York, and no woman had made the westward flight solo, though several had died trying. 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.
