West With the Night

Before dawn at Njoro, a barefoot girl goes out after warthog with the Nandi boys, a spear too long for her arm and a half-deaf dog called Buller at her heel; later a tame lion takes her down in the grass and she is carried home bleeding and thinks little of it. Beryl Markham trained racehorses in Kenya, then flew a small plane alone over country the maps had not bothered with, spotting elephant for the safaris below, once running a cylinder of oxygen through the night to a miner dying of blackwater fever, before turning west across the Atlantic into ice and darkness with one engine and no radio.