markm reviewed West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Review of 'West with the Night' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
One of the several memoirs from 20th century British East Africa. I can see why Hemingway might have liked it, since he knew Ms. Markham and her friends, she was an adventurer, she was involved in big game hunting, and her writing has the same colonial class stiff upper lip essence mixed with attractive observations of bygone Africa that Hemingway was drawn to.
It is interesting to see Markham's view of Bror Fredrik von Blixen-Finecke. There is no mention of his wives (especially of his first wife, whose Out of Africa is a different and, for my money, more moving work), or of his womanizing and venereal diseases.
