Beryl Markham was born in 1902 into a pastoral English village. At the age of four, she moved with her father to Kenya; she developed a taste for adventure as she grew, and was soon raising her own horses. That taste for adventure also led her to learn to fly; she was one of the first bush pilots in Kenya. In 1936, she took off from a field in Addington, England on an ambitious solo flight to New York. At that time only a few had accomplished the feat of…
