I speak of Africa and golden joys

Henry IV, Act V, Scene 3

Rose Field described West with the Night as "more than an autobiography; it is a poet’s feeling for her land, an adventurous response to life; a philosopher’s evaluation of human beings and human destinies."

Success breeds confidence.

World Without Walls: Beryl Markham's African Memoir. Produced by Joan Saffa. Directed
by Andrew Maxwell Hyslop. 60 minutes. SHG Productions, 1985. 1 videocassette.

Africa was the breath and life of my childhood. . . But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander. . . knowing nothing of its music or the meaning of its steps.

World Without Walls: Beryl Markham's African Memoir. Produced by Joan Saffa. Directed
by Andrew Maxwell Hyslop. 60 minutes. SHG Productions, 1985. 1 videocassette

You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.

Amelia Earhart

I have lifted my plane from Nairobi airport for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first born adventure. To me, she is alive and to me she speaks. I feel through the soles of my feet on the rudder bar the willing strain and flex of her muscles. The wind in the wires is like the tearing of soft silk.

World Without Walls: Beryl Markham's African Memoir. Produced by Joan Saffa. Directed
by Andrew Maxwell Hyslop. 60 minutes. SHG Productions, 1985. 1 videocassette