![]() ![]() Beryl stayed in Nairobi, setting up her own training business at the tender age of 19. ![]() When her father's farm collapsed in the economic downturn after World War I, he chose to move to South America. ![]() Young Beryl inherited his love of horses another of her many firsts was earning her official trainer's certification, which she did at 18, the first woman and one of the youngest persons ever to do so. Her father was a horse trainer and at one point he had more than 1,000 horses in his stables. ![]() Africa has been many things to many people, she wrote in "West with the Night," but "to me it has always been home." For the rest of her life, despite having traveled around the world and living at various points in Britain and the United States, Markham considered herself a Kenyan. Her family moved to Kenya when she was 4, and Markham grew up on a large plantation outside Nairobi. Indeed, her account of the flight, a spectacle at the time, is written with such off-handed humility in her memoir, "West with the Night," as to seem almost an afterthought. It turned out to be just one of many firsts for Markham. Beryl Markham was an extraordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life.Ī pioneering aviator and one of Africa's first commercial bush pilots, Markham was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west - a feat much harder to achieve than from west to east (as Charles Lindberg did) because it meant flying into the prevailing winds. ![]()
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