I highly recommend the book "West With the Night" by Beryl Markham. Beryl lived from 1902 - 1986 and grew up in East Africa. She is an incredible writer. On the back of the copy I'm reading there is this quote from ERNEST HEMMINGWAY: "...she has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer. I felt that I was simply a carpenter with words, picking up whatever was furnished on the job and nailing them together and sometimes making an okay pig pen. But [she] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers..." Is that high praise, or what? Here are 2 of my favorite quotes so far:
"God makes fat birds and small birds, trees that are wide and trees that are thin, like wattle. He makes big kernels and little kernels. I am a big kernel. One does not argue with God."
"If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flambouant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work."
This is a great book. Enjoy.
