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
Amy Johnson Baker. In that same year, she became the first British woman to obtain a ground engineer's "C" licence. Johnson obtained the funds for her first aircraft from her father, who would always be one of her strongest supporters, and Lord Wakefield. She purchased a second-hand de Havilland DH.60 Gipsy Moth G-AAAH and named it "Jason" after her father's business trade mark. Johnson achieved worldwide recognition when, in 1930, she became the first woman pilot or aviatrix to fly solo from England to Australia. Flying G-AAAH "Jason", she left Croydon, south of London, on 5 May and landed at Darwin, Northern