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Book Synopsis* ERNEST HEMINGWAY wrote to a friend: 'She can write rings around all of us ... I wish you would get it and read it because it is really a bloody wonderful book' * introduction by MARTHA GELLHORN
Trade ReviewA beautiful and evocative story that deserves to be ranked alongside Karen Blixen's
Out of Africa * Time Out *
A poet's feeling for her land, an adventurer's response to life * New York Herald Tribune *
[Markham] can write rings around all of us . . . I wish you would get it and read it because
it is really a bloody wonderful book -- Ernest Hemingway
Markham made her name as one of the first pilots to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1936 . . .
A vivacious account of an eccentric life, with Markham's headstrong nature and spirit shining out * Daily Mail *
A beautiful and evocative story that deserves to be ranked alongside Karen Blixen's OUT OF AFRICA * Time Out *
A poet's feeling for her land, an adventurer's response to life * New York HERALD Tribune *
Markham made her name as one of the first pilots to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1936 . . . A vivacious account of an eccentric life, with Markham's headstrong nature and spirit shining out * Daily Mail *
