With the nose of the plane stuck in the mud, she had climbed out and greeted two fishermen by saying, ‘I’m Mrs. She had survived her trip, but the plane had crash-landed in a peat bog. on September 4, 1936, facing a strong head wind, low clouds and blustery weather… A telephone call from a small town in Nova Scotia finally brought news of the aviator. The plane had no radio equipment, however, so contact with Markham would be impossible once she took off. Such a flight had never been accomplished because it meant flying against the prevailing winds… For the trip she borrowed an airplane- a single-engine Vega Gull with a 200-horsepower engine- that could fly up to 163 miles per hour and that was fitted with extra tanks so it could travel 3800 miles without refueling. “After years of bush flying in Kenya and locating big game by air for safaris, Markham returned to England, where she… to try for the prize of flying solo from London to New York. Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition, signed and dated June 1942 by Markham, the first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic from London to North America. “A BLOODY WONDERFUL BOOK” (ERNEST HEMINGWAY): WEST WITH THE NIGHT, SIGNED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY AVIATION PIONEER BERYL MARKHAM
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