Karen Blixen was like a mother to Beryl Markham, seventeen years younger.

Author and Hero In West with the Night By Robert Viking O'Brien The Journal of African Travel-Writing, Number 1, September 1996 (pp. 14-23) 1996 The Journal of African Travel-Writing West with the Night has had a rough flight. When it was first published in 1942, it received considerable critical acclaim and, initially, enjoyed high sales. The book's popularity quickly diminished, however, for ...