West with the Night, Illustrated (Gift Ed.)
Markham, Beryl
From Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.
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From Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since August 1, 2012
About this Item
First Edition, First Printing. Published by North Point Press, 1987. Octavo. Book is very good, spotting on page ends. Dust jacket is very good, price-clipped. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. Seller Inventory # 179922
Bibliographic Details
Title: West with the Night, Illustrated (Gift Ed.)
Publisher: North Point Press
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.Born in England in 1902, Markham was taken by her father to East Africa in 1906. She spent her childhood playing with native Maruni children and apprenticing with her father as a trainer and breeder of racehorses. In the 1930s, she became an African bush pilot, and in September 1936, became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west.
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