Straight on Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham

First U.S. edition. Publisher's original hardcover, spine stamped in gold.

Straight On Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham

Biographies & Memoirs

LOVELL, Mary S.

Community & Culture

RANDOM HOUSE UK

The New York Times bestseller: “Every page is filled with revelations, gossip and fascinating details about Markham.”―Diane Ackerman, The New York Times Book Review Born in England and raised in Kenya, Beryl Markham was a notorious beauty. She trained race horses and had scandalous affairs, but she is most remembered for being a pioneering aviatrix. She became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to make it from London to New York nonstop. In Mary S. Lovell’s definitive biography, Beryl takes on new life―vividly portrayed by a master biographer whose knowledge of her subject is unparalleled. 16 pages of photographs

Straight on Till Morning: Biography of Beryl Markham (Arena Books)

Arrow Books, Ltd.

The Sound of Wings Story of Amelia Earhart

Sports & Outdoors

Biographies

Profiles a remarkable twentieth-century woman who became Africa's first female thoroughbred trainer and its first female bush pilot, her turbulent private life, and her flight--the first of its kind--from England to North America

Straight on Till Morning: the Biography of Beryl Markham

St Martins Pr

A revealing profile depicts Earhart's tomboy childhood in Kansas, her close relationship with her alcoholic father, and her meeting and subsequent married life with publisher G.P. Putnam

The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart

Historical

St. Martin's: Griffin

When Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during her attempted flight around the world, she was already known as America's most famous female aviator. Her sense of daring and determination, rare for women of her time, brought her insurmountable fame from the day she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. In this definitive biography, Mary S. Lovell delivers a brilliantly researched account on Earhart's life using the original documents, letters, the logbooks of Earhart and her contemporaries, and personal interviews with members of Amelia's family, friends and rival aviators. The Sound of Wings vividly captures the drama and mystery behind the most influential woman in "The Golden Age of Flight"―from her tomboy days at the turn of the century and her early fascinations with flying, to the unique relationship she shared with G.P. Putnam, the flamboyant publisher and public relations agent who became both her husband and her business manager. It is a revealing biography of an uncommonly brave woman, and the man who both aided and took advantage of her dreams.

Arts & Literature

A Rage to Live

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