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The Amazing Ms Markham

Beryl Markham lived an interesting life. She was born in 1902 and grew up in an African country called Kenya. There, she and her father lived on a horse farm. Markham loved the horses and learned a lot about them. She learned so much that she became a horse trainer at the age of nineteen. This was unusual at the time. Markham was the first woman to be allowed to train racehorses in Kenya. She was a good trainer, and the horses she trained won many races.

Markham enjoyed training horses and did so for many years. But she also loved adventure and travel. Markham became interested in flying aeroplanes, so she took lessons and learned to fly. After completing her lessons, she became the first woman in Kenya to obtain her pilot’s licence. With her pilot’s licence, Markham could fly planes. She helped many people as a pilot. She used her plane to deliver goods, medicine and mail. Once, she even flew twenty hours from England to North America without stopping. This made her the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west.

After she grew tired of flying, Markham moved to the United States. She wrote a book about her life called West with the Night. It tells all about her amazing adventures as a pilot in East Africa. Later in her life, she decided to return to Kenya to train racehorses once again. Today, she is best known for being a celebrated horse trainer, an author and a pilot.