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title	:	Flying against the Wind : A Story About Beryl Markham Creative Minds Biography
author	:	Bowen, Andy Russell.; Haas, Shelly O.
publisher	:	Carolrhoda Books
isbn10 | asin	:	0575050810
print isbn13	:	9780575050815
ebook isbn13	:	9780585324456
language	:	English
subject	Markham, Beryl--Juvenile literature, Women air pilots--Great Britain--Biography--Juvenile literature, Women air pilots--Africa--Biography--Juvenile literature, Markham, Beryl, Air pilots, Women--Biography.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	TL540.M345B68 1998eb
ddc	:	629.13/092
subject	:	Markham, Beryl--Juvenile literature, Women air pilots--Great Britain--Biography--Juvenile literature, Women air pilots--Africa--Biography--Juvenile literature, Markham, Beryl, Air pilots, Women--Biography.

Page 1 Flying against the Wind

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Page 3 Flying against the Wind A Story about Beryl Markham A Carolrhoda Creative Minds Biologhy by Andy Russell Bowen illustrations by Shelly O. Haas

Page 4 For Monnie and Marcia, my oldest friends A. R. B. With special thanks to Toshanna, Jeanette, and Edwin S. O. H. The author wishes to thank Donald Woods, Kenneth Kibagendi Angwenyi, and Charles Kibagendi Orinda for their interest and help. Text copyright 1998 by Andy Russell Bowen Illustrations copyright 1998 by Shelly O. Haas All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of Carolrhoda Books, Inc., except for brief quotations in an acknowledged review. Carolrhoda Books, Inc., c/o The Lerner Publishing Group 241 First Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55401 U.S.A. Website address: www.lernerbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bowen, Andy Russell. Flying against the wind : a story about Beryl Markham / by Andy Russell Bowen ; illustrations by Shelly O. Haas. p. cm. (Carolrhoda creative minds book) Includes bibliographical (p. ) references and index. Summary: A biography of the first person, man or woman, to fly alone across the Atlantic nonstop from England to North America, from her childhood in Africa to her record-setting flight. ISBN 1-57505-081-1 (alk. paper) 1. Markham, BerylJuvenile literature. 2. Women air pilots Great BritainBiographyJuvenile literature. 3. Women air pilotsAfricaBiographyJuvenile literature. [1. Markham, Beryl. 2. Air pilots. 3. WomenBiography.] I. Title. II. Series. TL540.M345B68 1998 629.13'092 [B]DC21 97-13649 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 - MA - 03 02 01 00 99 98

Page 5 Table of Contents When the Moon Shines at Midnight 7 A Horse with Wings 21 Engines Are Moody Things 28 The Rest is Up to You 42 The Earth in the Palm of Your Hand 48 Afterword 59 Bibliography 62 Index 63

Page 7 1 When the Moon Shines at Midnight Paddy wasn't an unusual sight for nine-year-old Beryl Clutterbuck, who had lived in British East Africa for as long as she could remember. She was used to seeing the neighbor's pet lion. But she hadn't expected to come upon him just in that place or quite at that moment. There he lay in a clearing near the neighbor's farmyard, "sprawled in the morning sun, huge... and gleaming with life," Beryl wrote. "His tail moved slowly, stroking the rough grass like a knotted rope end."

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Page 9 Beryl was a lot smaller than Paddy, but she was sure she had nothing to fear. After all, she knew all about lions. She looked straight at him and shuffled her bare feet in the dust. Then, to show Paddy she wasn't the least bit afraid, she started to sing an African marching song as she moved on past him, picking her way through the thick underbrush in search of adventure. But Beryl should have paid closer attention to her father's warnings. Don't trust Paddy, he had told her many times. Lions are unpredictable. And sure enough, as soon as Beryl's back was turned, the lion pounced and sank his teeth into her leg. From somewhere deep down in his fur came a roar that seemed to fill the whole world. "I closed my eyes and tried not to be," Beryl wrote. Beryl was rescued in time, and Paddy ran off. But before he was caught, he killed a horse, a cow, and a bull on a nearby farm.

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