![]() ![]() Markham is piloting her Vera Gull over the ocean, and she’s in trouble. ![]() Now Markham gets her moment in the sun, starring in Paula McLain’s latest work of historical fiction.Īnd what a character Markham was in real life: a magnet for scandal, married and divorced multiple times, an independent woman who trained horses and then set records with a 1936 solo Atlantic crossing in her “aeroplane.” Like Dinesen with Out of Africa, Markham wrote an autobiography, West With the Night.Ĭircling the Sun takes off with great promise in a gripping first chapter. It turns out there was a third party to their 1920s love affair - aviator Beryl Markham, who was just as mad about the elusive Finch Hatton as was her unhappily married friend Blixen. It’s been 30 years since the wonderful Oscar-winning film Out of Africa roared onto movie screens, starring a luminous Meryl Streep as memoirist Karen Blixen (pen name Isak Dinesen) and a rugged Robert Redford as her romantic prey, big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton. ![]()
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