书名：West with the Night夜航西飞

作者：Beryl Markham 

出版社名称：Virago 

出版时间：1984 

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780860685418 

商品尺寸：12.6 x 2.8 x 19.6 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：304（以实物为准）《夜航西飞》是英国女飞行员柏瑞尔·马卡姆创作的回忆录，出版于1942年。

《夜航西飞》主要介绍了作者在非洲狩猎赛马、独自驾机飞行的生活片段，书中气息湿润幽微，内心景观的呈现和外部景观的呈现细腻出色。

1983年《夜航西飞》由旧金山North Point出版社再版；1986年《夜航西飞》登上《纽约时报》平装书畅销排行榜冠*军！ 《夜航西飞》以20世纪20至30年代的肯尼亚为背景，真实再现了作者在非洲的生活，其中包括她毕生钟爱的两项有趣又传奇的事业——训练赛马和驾驶飞机。柏瑞尔·马卡姆以非常动人的文字，铺陈出她在非洲度过的童年、参与狩猎的情景、与当地土著的情谊、训练赛马的过程，以及她独自驾驶单翼双座木螺旋桨飞机，在东部非洲从事职业飞行并猎队搜寻大象踪迹的往事；还描述了她从非洲驾机回英国沿途所遭遇到的政治与自然险阻；记录了她在1936年9月独自驾机从英国飞越大西洋直抵北美的经过。

WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham -- aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s. Markham was taken to Kenya at the age of four. As an adult she was befriended by Denys Finch-Hatton, the big-game hunter of OUT OF AFRICA fame, who took her flying in his airplane. Thrilled by the experience, Markham went on to become the first woman in Kenya to receive a commercial pilot's license. In 1936 she determined to fly solo across the Atlantic -- without stopping. When Charles Lindbergh did the same, he had the wind behind him. Markham, by contrast, had a strong headwind against her and a plane that only flew up to 163 mph. On 4 September, she took off ...Several days later, she crash-landed in Nova Scotia and became an instant celebrity.

柏瑞尔·马卡姆，1902年10月26日出生于英国莱斯特郡，英国女飞行员、冒险家和作家。在英属东非长大，成为驯马师和育马家，曾训练出几只肯亚达比马赛冠军。后来转向航空，向非洲大陆深处运送货物、乘客和邮件。1936年9月，她从英国出发，驾驶飞机一路向西飞行，zui后在加拿大迫降，费时二十一小时二十五分，成为第一位单人由东向西飞越大西洋的飞行员。1942年出版回忆录《夜西行》。1950年，她回到肯尼亚，重操赛马训练师的职业，直到1986年8月3日，她在内罗毕自己的家里突然辞世。

Born in England in 1902, Beryl Markham grew up in East Africa. She apprenticed as a trainer and breeder of racehorses and in the 1930s became an African bush pilot. In 1936 she became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. Markham died suddenly in 1986.