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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.
Beryl Markham, English professional pilot, horse trainer and breeder, writer, and adventurer, best known for her memoir West with the Night (1942; reissued 1983). She also was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west.
Aug 5, 1986 · The British aviation pioneer Beryl Markham, who in 1936 became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west, died Sunday at a Nairobi hospital, her lawyer said today.
Sep 24, 2018 · Beryl Markham (born Beryl Clutterbuck; October 26, 1902 – August 3, 1986) was a British-Kenyan aviator, writer, and horse trainer. Although she worked in several different fields, she is best known for being the first woman to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west.
Jul 20, 2022 · In 1936 English-born Kenyan aviator Beryl Markham became not only the first female but the first aviator to fly solo westward across the Atlantic to the United States from Europe. She documented her achievement in a memoir titled "West with the Night."
Sep 19, 2022 · No one has written more lusciously about that pilgrimage, nor undertaken it with more elemental daring, than Beryl Markham (October 16, 1902–August 3, 1986). Known to the world as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from East to West with the sweep of night, against headwinds and storms particularly ferocious in that direction ...
Apr 8, 2024 · Aged thirty-three, Beryl Markham had just become the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic, non-stop from Europe to North America, no mean feat given that she was traveling east-west against a 40-mile headwind.
May 13, 2015 · Growing up in Kenya, then a part of British East Africa, aviator Beryl Markham’s life was one of firsts. At age 18, she was the first woman in Africa to get a racehorse trainer’s license.
Famous adventurer and accomplished horse trainer and bush pilot who is most widely known for her record-breaking solo flight from east to west across the Atlantic in 1936 and her bestselling memoir West with the Night .
Mar 30, 2009 · Author Anne Cherian was 24 when she first read — and was enthralled by — Beryl Markham's autobiography West With the Night, a beautifully written retelling of the aviator's childhood in...
