Play Book Tag discussion

This memoir of Beryl Markham's is a selective collection of memories that outline her life. Mostly adventures and incidents that give highlights, often condensing a life in horse training into a single race or working with a certain horse to represent all of the type of thing she experienced. The stories from her childhood, running with the boys and young men of the Nandi tribe that worked on her father's farm were some of the best. The stories are hair-raising. Fearless and independent, she was often out to prove herself in a man's world, getting her trainer's license at 18 and learning to fly in her early twenties. This book gives the impression of a loner, living life as she chose. It gives no indication of her loves, her marriages, or her son though they existed. Her relationship with her father was not close; neither seemed to know how to connect. A great read but left you wanting more.

I enjoyed this so much more than McLain's fictional book about her