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"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1993.
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English
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A biography of the Englishwoman known for her 1936 transatlantic solo flight describes her sexual adventures, three marriages, and pursuit of Denys Finch Hatton, whose relationship with Isak Dinesen was captured in Out of Africa.--
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
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The story of the noble-born unconventional Englishwoman, Beryl Markham, who became a famous aviator.
"Taken as a young child to British East Africa, where she was left by her mother to be raised by a father who trained thoroughbreds for the Nairobi racing scene, Markham grew up to become one of the most daring and courageous women of her time. ... Beryl Markham would twice go on to become a figure of international renown: in 1936, when she became...
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