• Markham was Africa’s first female racehorse trainer and later its first female bush pilot. 
• In 1936, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in an east to west direction—a difficult feat against prevailing headwinds.
•  Markham ran out of fuel over open sea before she arrived in Cape Breton. Her Vega Gull spluttered its last just as land came into view. She upended in a peat bog a few miles short of her intended landfall. 
• Following the record-breaking flight, the man who funded her adventure, J.C. Carberry, sold the plane to a wealthy Indian who ". . . left her exposed to the weather on the airport at Dar es Salaam until her engine rusted and her wings peeled and she was forgotten by everyone I think, but myself. . ."(Beryl Markham, West with the Night, page 293). 

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