WP18: Author Mary S. Lovell talks about the vintage aircraft she owned that led her to the aviation pioneer and author of the book West with the Night, Beryl Markham, in Kenya.

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In this excerpt from my interview with Mary S. Lovell, author of Straight on Till Morning; The Life of Beryl Markham, she talks about the vintage aircraft that she owned with her ex-husband, one of which was featured in the movie Out of Africa, and which led her to Berly Markham, famous as the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo in an aircraft ‘the hard way’ (from East to West), and author of the classic Aviatrix memoir, West with the Night

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