West with the Night West with the Night West with the Night is a 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa) in the early 1900s, leading to celebrated careers as a racehorse trainer and bush pilot there. It is considered a classic of outdoor literature and was included in the U.S.A.'s Armed Services Editions shortly after its publication. In 2004, "National Geographic Adventure" ranked it number 8 in a list of 100 best adventure books. Ernest Hemingway was deeply impressed with Markham's writing, saying Markham is the first person to fly the Atlantic east to
To the Manor Born gained great viewing figures it really wasn't a patch on the original episodes." This opinion was reflected in the voting for "The Comedy.co.uk Awards 2007", in which the show picked up the title "The Worst British TV Sitcom Special 2007". The writer Peter Spence wrote two books that accompanied "To the Manor Born". While they were based on the TV episodes, both books did differ with added conversations, changed storylines and the characters being given different personality traits. The first book, published in 1979 by Arrow Books, is entitled "To the Manor Born" and is based on the first series