Straight on Till Morning: the Biography of Beryl Markham
by Mary S Lovell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- used - excellent/used - excellent
- ISBN 10
- 0312010966
- ISBN 13
- 9780312010966
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
This book is in excellent condition, no wear to covers, very minor age related colour change to dust jacket. No markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases. "Profiles a remarkable twentieth-century woman who became Africa's first female thoroughbred trainer and its first female bush pilot, her turbulent private life, and her flight--the first of its kind--from England to North America" Good Reads "Mary was an accountant and company director for 20 years before becoming a writer. She wrote her first book in 1981 at the age of 40, while recovering from a broken back which was the result of a riding accident. She returned to accountancy but during the following 5 years she also published two further non-fiction books that were written in her spare time.
She lives in the New Forest in Hampshire, England." Good Reads
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 834-2023
- Title
- Straight on Till Morning: the Biography of Beryl Markham
- Author
- Mary S Lovell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- used - excellent
- Jacket Condition
- used - excellent
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312010966
- ISBN 13
- 9780312010966
- Publisher
- St Martins Pr
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 407
- Size
- 24 cm x 16 cm
- Keywords
- Non-Fiction, Biography
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