Markham was a pioneering aviatrix and writer who grew up in colonial East Africa, and in this 1942 memoir she recounts flying, exploration, and solitude in Kenya with remarkable clarity and restraint. Less a travelogue than a meditation on freedom and landscape, it´s widely regarded as the finest travel memoir by a woman, especially notable for her authoritative voice and luminous prose.

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