Her true love is her homeland Kenya and the adventures and people described in the book make for an exciting story. She chafes at the life of a farmer's wife and eventually chooses to find her own life as a horse trainer at a time when this was a profession for men only. As she matures, she is something of a "wild child." Her father's farm fails and she is married off at 17 to a local farmer. Beryl learns to survive through her friendship with local native people, particularly a young boy, and through helping her father with the horses. Her mother cannot tolerate the difficult life style and returns to England leaving her 4 year old daughter bereft. The setting in the world of colonial Africa in the 1920s was fascinating.īeryl's family moves to Kenya when she is a young child when her father seeks to restart his life through farming and training horses. Her story, as told by Paula McLain, was both poignant and empowering. Beryl Markham was an amazing woman whose fierce independence and bravery predated the woman's movement by more than half a century. This was one of those books that you can't stop reading.
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