About Beryl Markham: Beryl Markham is now primarily remembered as the author of the memoir West with the Night. She also had an affair with Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:) "Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.
Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.
All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost should seeking a hope when all that I love is at my wingtips? Because I am curious. Because I am incorrigibly, now, a wan...
…it was even more disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in many cases the bulk of the terrain over which you had to fly was bluntly marked: ‘UNSURVEYED.’ It was as if the mapmakers had said, ‘We are a...
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
