West with the Night she crash-landed at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Markham had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo, and the first person to make it from England to North America non-stop from east to west. She was celebrated as an aviation pioneer. 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
Roz Savage detected by her positional transponder. Despite all this, and the danger of having to cut off the rope to her failed sea anchor in waves, she arrived safely at the finish in Antigua. She is only the 5th woman to row solo across the Atlantic from East to West. Savage's book of her Atlantic voyage "Rowing the Atlantic - Lessons Learned on the Open Ocean" was published on 6 October 2009 by Simon & Schuster. Shortly after her successful Atlantic crossing, she announced her bid to become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US