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The splendid outcast: Beryl Markham's African stories

This book features a compilation of narratives by Beryl Markham, a pioneering female aviator and author, focusing on her experiences and observations in Africa. more

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Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham

Beryl Markham, born on October 26, 1902, and died on August 3, 1986, was a renowned Kenyan female pilot and author. She was born in the United Kingdom but grew up in Kenya and is best known for her exceptional flying achievements and literary works. more

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“The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not proportion to Eternity; Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean! There is the time of man--his proper time, Looking at which this life is but a gust, A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!”

“Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!”

“The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.”