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West with the Night is a 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa) in the early 1900s, leading to celebrated careers as a racehorse trainer and bush pilot there.
A tale from West with the Night was excerpted and illustrated by Don Brown as a children's book, The Good Lion. In 1988, CBS aired the biographical miniseries, Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun, with Stefanie Powers in the title role. Both West with the Night and Splendid Outcast appeared on the New York Times best-seller list of hardcover ...
The innovative approach of the "Night Mail" story, termed "indirect exposition" (or "incluing"), strongly influenced the style of the later post-war science-fiction author Robert A. Heinlein. The tales inspired a substantial role-playing game, Forgotten Futures , which had as its first source book The A.B.C. Files: A Role Playing Sourcebook For ...
The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! A. E. Housman's "The shades of night were falling fast" also parodies the poem The shades of night were falling fast And the rain was falling faster, When through an Alpine village passed
All Passion Spent is written in three parts, primarily from the view of an intimate observer. The first part introduces Lady Slane at the time of her husband's death. She has been the dutiful wife of a "great man" in public life, Viceroy of India and a member of the House of Lords.
Errol Trzebinski Autograph. Errol Trzebinski (born 24 June 1936 in Gloucester), is a British writer of books on the Happy Valley set of colonial Kenya.. Her book Silence Will Speak was a source for the script of the 1985 Hollywood movie Out of Africa. [1]
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West-Running Brook is a poetry collection by Robert Frost, written in 1923 and published by Henry Holt and Company in 1928, containing woodcut illustrations by J. J. Lankes. The title of the poem that the volume is named by has been called very significant.