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"Julie Harris' reading of aviatrix Beryl Markham's biography and celebration of Africa is an essential audiobook. Enjoy the magic of the spoken word and Harris' lovely performance." (AudioFile)
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"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: give me leave to do my utmost." This line from "Babette's Feast" lends itself to both of the stories in this audio collection, which tell of unbreakable human spirit and total commitment to life choices. "Babette's Feast," now an award-winning film, takes a humorous look at a pure-spirited community in which love, lost youth, self-denial, and creative urges contribute to making the right choices. And "Sorrow-Acre," the most anthologized of Isak Dinesen's stories, challenges the most profound choice of all. Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst's warm, sensitive interpretation reveals the subtle beauty of Dinesen's prose.
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Brilliant writing, beautifully read
- By Rose on 04-24-05
By: Isak Dinesen
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Holiday SOS
- The Life-Saving Adventures of a Travelling Doctor
- By: Ben MacFarlane
- Narrated by: Sam Devereaux
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane - a very modern flying doctor. His job is get on a plane and bring patients home after holiday disasters, gap year crises, embarrassing incidents on business trips and all the other things that can go wrong when we head overseas. Holiday SOS is his extraordinary story. It’s a unique medical memoir of the people he helps - and a year in the life of one of the world’s most frequent flyers!
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entertaining listen
- By James S Eastling on 04-26-24
By: Ben MacFarlane
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Travel Light, Move Fast
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Alexandra Fuller
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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After her father's sudden death, Alexandra Fuller realizes that if she is going to weather his loss, she will need to become the parts of him she misses most. So begins Travel Light, Move Fast, the unforgettable story of Tim Fuller, a self-exiled British black sheep who moved to Africa to fight in the Rhodesian War before settling as a banana farmer in Zambia. A man who preferred chaos to predictability and was more afraid of becoming bored than of getting lost, he taught his daughters to live as if everything needed to happen altogether, all at once - or not at all.
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Beautiful
- By Thandi Lamprecht on 05-26-21
By: Alexandra Fuller
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Endurance
- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- By: Alfred Lansing
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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You'll be awe-inspired by the heroic efforts of the crew of the Endurance, a ship that battled its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice while ironically only a day's sail from its destination.
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Get the Unabridged one (also on Audible)
- By MP on 07-28-03
By: Alfred Lansing
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Ada Blackjack
- A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
- By: Jennifer Niven
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. This young, unskilled woman - who had headed to the Arctic in search of money and a husband - conquered the seemingly unconquerable north and survived all alone after her male companions had perished.
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Great true story
- By Michael L Benken on 03-22-22
By: Jennifer Niven
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Alone on the Ice
- The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
- By: David Roberts
- Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp - the dogs were gone. Mawson plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizable, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, "Which one are you?"
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Put Another Log on the Fire
- By Mel on 02-07-13
By: David Roberts
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Cry of the Kalahari
- By: Mark Owens, Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Donna Postel, Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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This is the story of the Owens' travel and life in the Kalahari Desert. Here they met and studied unique animals and were confronted with danger from drought, fire, storms, and the animals they loved. This best-selling book is for both travelers and animal lovers.
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Classic Book & Very Highly Recommended
- By Tropical Gal on 05-12-19
By: Mark Owens, and others
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The Lost Continent
- Travels In Small Town America
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after 10 years in England he decided to go home, to a foreign country. In an ageing Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through 38 states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America.
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Written by Bryson's evil twin
- By M. S. Cohen on 08-11-14
By: Bill Bryson
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H Is for Hawk
- By: Helen Macdonald
- Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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When Helen MacDonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral anger mirrored her own.
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Mabel The Hawk--The Fire That Burned The Hurts Away
- By Sara on 04-09-15
By: Helen Macdonald
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- Meliannos
- 01-23-21
Remarkable! You can’t make this kind of story up...
I rarely write a full review but am compelled to make an exception with this book. The remarkable story of a remarkable life of a remarkable person. She reminisced with a frank candor of a very special person who never thought of herself as particularly spectacular, but more fortunate to have had the opportunity to pursue life to the fullest in her own way.
Hats off to Julie Harris for her narration. She brings Beryl to life. Made me feel as if I were sitting with her drinking gin and tonics while she rolled out the story of her life.
I highly recommend this book to anyone with a sense of adventure. Particularly if you like a true story that draws you in and holds you like the best of fiction novels.
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- Roberta
- 08-28-11
You have to read this book
Again, YOU HAVE TO READ THIS BOOK. Don't hesitate, just get it. I have become so enamored of Beryl Markham since I started this book (I'm a little over halfway thru) that I also bought the biography written about her.
Ms. Markham was up for a Pulitzer Prize for this, but lost to Ernest Hemingway - who was quoted as saying that the prize should have gone to her because she wrote circles around him. The reason she didn't get it was because she was married to a screenwriter at the time, and there was speculation that he either authored it or co-wrote it.
I wish she had won it. The prose is absolutely stunning. This not the typical autobiography. She basically tells stories from her life...each fascinating story starts out casual and easy, then it grabs you by the seat of your pants and you'll find yourself on edge to find out what happens next.
Thanks to her, I feel that I've been to Africa and know a part of it that no one else does - she makes it so real. I wish I could have met her!
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- Lyn
- 10-22-18
A happy error
I purchased this book to learn about Amelia Aerhart but discovered another aviatrix Beryl Markham. This woman was a great horsewoman, an outstanding pilot and feminist but most of all she is an exquisite wrtier!
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- Neil Funsch
- 09-18-20
Best Book I’ve Read This Year!
I knew next to nothing about the book or it’s author. So it was one marvelous unexpected enjoyment after another. I kept saying to myself as I read ‘Surely a writer as dazzlingly gifted as this has written many books!’ I bought 3 copies to send to friends. Highest recommendation.
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- Marc
- 06-16-18
the book reminds me of Hemingway
great book I enjoyed the story about the elephants how the females protected the males from the hunters
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- 07-24-16
Engrossing memoir
A beautifully written book about an adventurous woman who lived her true life. For readers who enjoy adventure.
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- T. Kruse
- 10-09-20
Wonderful
I loved this account of Beryl’s Africa. Felt as though I were there. Brought back many fond memories. A time long gone. One can’t always go back but stories bring remembrances forward.
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- Mary Lou Skowronski
- 03-05-12
Kept my interest throughout the read.
Would you listen to West with the Night again? Why?
Flying over Africa and other countries were described with enough detail to make you feel you were in the cockpit. It is one of those books that you could listen to again.
What other book might you compare West with the Night to and why?
I would compare this book equal to Out of Africa.
What about Julie Harris’s performance did you like?
Narrator Julie Harris has tremendous talent identifying each character easily.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The suspense of being in flight without a light to guide her and her relationship with the people of Africa made this a moving experience.
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- Hardy Jones
- 10-28-15
Brilliant Woman, Brilliant Writing
A thoroughly entertaining view into a time and place - Africa, 1930s. But more than that an interior view of an extraordinary woman. I dont understand how a woman who had a sense of and respect for elephants could have scouted for hunting parties. Still, this is one of my favorite books and Julie Harris's narration does it justice.
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- Alice Canlis
- 02-17-15
Unparalleled literature
It is hard to write a review when I feel speechless from having listened to west with the night. The only descriptive english writing I have ever read which compares with this story was some of the scene setting in Steinbeck's East of Eden. By comparison west with the night is more grand, global and majestic. As a pilot, I was completely taken with the story. Yes, Saint-Exupery has written with a similar grandeur that lifts the reader above the earth, but Markham exceeds Saint-Exupery in every way. What a shame this book had to end. Chris
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