![]() ![]() Her reverence for the majesty of Nature-even its predatory creatures-will not be lost on young readers. ![]() "Paddy had lived and died in ways not of his choosing," Markham concludes, with unexpected compassion. What followed was my scream that was barely a whisper." During the few moments the lion actually traps her, Brown's golden spreads turn to cold shadows of purple and blue then, as help quickly arrives, the pictures turn sunny again. ![]() Even the lion made no sound as he came swiftly behind me. A sequence of seven suspenseful pages-one per second of elapsed time, seemingly-shows that Markham's father is right. ![]() She calls the lion "harmless" still she "remember not to run," walking slowly past the giant cat when she finds him in her path. He portrays the narrator with a long brown ponytail and gray trousers. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham - aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s. "A tame lion in an unnatural lion,'' Markham's father warns her, "and whatever is unnatural is untrustworthy." Brown's sepia-tinted watercolors impart information without drawing attention to themselves. WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. , the 1942 autobiography the aviator wrote about her youth in East Africa, the text relates the events of a visit she made with her father to the Elkington Farm, where Paddy, a hand-raised lion, freely roams the estate. ) brings to life a bold and enchanting girl, the young Beryl Markham. ![]()
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