Describes growing up in an Africa that no longer exists, training and breeding race horses, flying mail to Sudan, and being the first woman to fly the Atlantic, east to west.
Describes the life of Beryl Markham, the first person to fly the Atlantic solo against headwinds, from her childhood in British East Africa to her death in 1986.
"A biography of Mary Wilkins Ellis, a woman pilot who flew planes for Britain's Airport Transport Auxiliary during World War II and ran an airport on the Isle of Wight"--