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Holistic Guidance - The Lives of Beryl Markham
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List Price: $17.95
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.13092
EAN: 9780393312522
ISBN: 0393312526
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 398
Publication Date: 1995-03
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary: Unpleasant Truth
Comment: After reading Beryl's memoir, West With the Night, I wanted to find out more about this woman who rubbed shoulders with Karen Blixen and Denys Finch Hatton. Boy, I wish I hadn't! However true it may be, this biography paints an unflattering portrait of a woman who was likely bipolar, with strong tendencies to mania. Her fame as a record-setting aviation pioneer is vastly overshadowed by the fact that she bed-hopped all across Africa, Europe and America, drifting from marriage to marriage and abandoning her own child.
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Summary: Read Straight On Till Morning...
Comment: Read the biography by Mary Lovell, Straight On Till Morning. Beryl Markham was a remarkable woman, albeit not really enculturated to her "Britishness," due to upbringing etc...but this running with the boys and learning to hunt was the root of her disaffection with life in England, and probably the root of her relationships. She did what a lot of women ddn't even know one could. And no one taught us in school that she was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane...how judgemental is that?! A fascinating life all the way.
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Summary: excellent purchase
Comment: I bought this book as a gift, and it was very well received. Thank you.
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Summary: Finding Beryl Markham
Comment: After reading "West with the Night" I wanted to know who is this brilliant woman? The biography is hard to follow because events and persons are mixed in a weird cocktail. The author does not follow a clear story line, has perhaps just as little writing talent as she claims Beryl Markham did. Beryl's uninhibited life in Africa and Los Angeles is documented, but not much credit given to her remarkable talents this woman obviously possessed. Her third husband Raoul Schumacher, a Hollywood ghostwriter, is believably credited with the authorship of "West with the Night". He couldn't have written so well without the vivid recollections about horsebreeding, aviation and animal behavior in Africa by his wife Beryl Markham, whom he adored.
This biography is a hodgepodge through which one most roam to come about facts. Like for instance what kind of monoplane did she fly from London to New York etc.? Was the year 1932?
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Summary: Did she or didn't she?
Comment: Several writers have suggested what is really a sensible solution - Beryl was not an author in the traditional sense, she wrote about her life and experiences, so her efforts when trying to write commercially were plagued by her disinterest and lack of ability. She did write beautifully in West as well as those of her stories presented in the first section of Splendid Outcast, but if you compare them with ones at the end of the book, that the author suggests were probably written jointly with Rauol, the stylistic differences are clear. She was not a "writer" who could churn out material for publication, she could write about the things she knew and loved.As to being promiscious and occasionally ornery, she saw no reason to act any differently than men acted in her world, and good for her!
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