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  • ON EXTENDED WINGS: An Adventure in Flight. by Ackerman, Diane.
    Ackerman, Diane.
    ON EXTENDED WINGS: An Adventure in Flight.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atheneum, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning poet Diane Ackerman describes how she gained mastery over the mysteries of flight and earned her private pilot's license, of her frustration and exhilaration during hours of lessons and seemingly endless touch and go's of her first solo and her first cross-country flights, and of the teachers and pilots and aviation enthusiasts with whom she flew. Glossary. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-689115407.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (gift inscription on front endpaper, 2 small chips to dj)

    Book ID: 86504
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  • STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING: The Biography of Beryl Markham. by [Markham, Beryl, 1902--1986] Lovell, Mary S.
    [Markham, Beryl, 1902--1986] Lovell, Mary S.
    STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING: The Biography of Beryl Markham.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first biography of this English-born Kenyan aviator who became Africa's first female thoroughbred trainer and its first female bush pilot. In 1936, she became the first pilot to fly solo from England to North America - against the headwinds. Shortly before her death, Lovell was able to interview Markham, and they become friends.Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. xxiv, 408 pp. ISBN: 0-312010966.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 78730
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  • THE LIVES OF BERYL MARKHAM: Out of Africa's Hidden Free Spirit and Denys Finch Hatton's Last Great Love. by [Markham, Beryl. 1902-1986] Trzebinski, Errol
    [Markham, Beryl. 1902-1986] Trzebinski, Errol
    THE LIVES OF BERYL MARKHAM: Out of Africa's Hidden Free Spirit and Denys Finch Hatton's Last Great Love.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of this aviatrix who won fame with her transatlantic solo flight in 1936, one which "peels away the layers of myth in Markham's popular memoir, 'West with the Night', to reveal a sexually insatiable woman whose charisma concealed a selfish, ruthless, insecure self-doubter. Trzebinski knew Markham for many years in Kenya, where the future ace pilot, racehorse trainer and royal courtesan to Edward, Prince of Wales and to the Duke of Gloucester was raised by her English father, a rampant colonialist, and by Masai servants. . . The gutsy aviator's obsessive affair with rakish pilot/safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton, whose other mistress was Danish…

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    New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of this aviatrix who won fame with her transatlantic solo flight in 1936, one which "peels away the layers of myth in Markham's popular memoir, 'West with the Night', to reveal a sexually insatiable woman whose charisma concealed a selfish, ruthless, insecure self-doubter. Trzebinski knew Markham for many years in Kenya, where the future ace pilot, racehorse trainer and royal courtesan to Edward, Prince of Wales and to the Duke of Gloucester was raised by her English father, a rampant colonialist, and by Masai servants. . . The gutsy aviator's obsessive affair with rakish pilot/safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton, whose other mistress was Danish Baroness Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), is fully disclosed here. Also presented is compelling evidence that 'West with the Night' was written by Markham's third husband, Hollywood ghostwriter Raoul Schumacher." (Publishers Weekly) Illustrated with photographs. Notes, references, index. xx, 396 pp. ISBN: 0-393035565.

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    Condition: Very good in a very near fine dust jacket (binding cracking between pp 146-147, but the book is still tight and straight, bump to top edge of rear board).

    Book ID: 84956
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