"If you have to leave the place where you have lived, loved, buried in all the past, no matter how, do not leave slowly, leave decisively, never look back. Don't believe that the past times are better, they are dead. The past years seem safe and harmless, easily crossed, while the future is hidden in the fog, making people look timid. But when you step into it, the clouds will clear. ” — "Night Flight West", Burrell Markham
Burrell Markham was the bravest pilot of her time.
On September 4, 1936, she set out alone from England,
Fly the plane all the way west,
Trying to fly across the Atlantic.
Flying high in the air stretches endless loneliness,
Only the stars and the moonlight guide her,
Storms are sometimes fierce.
Twenty-one hours later,
The engine of the plane she was flying broke down,
The tank vents are also frozen,
Burrell had to make a forced landing in Nova Scotia.
For this flight, the media coverage was this:
Flying over the Atlantic: From Abington, England, to an unknown swamp.
Still, she broke the world record,
He became the first pilot to fly the Atlantic Ocean from east to west alone.
Before she decided to try this adventure,
The media came to her town,
They couldn't believe:
One with such a charming body,
An elegant woman with fair skin and blonde hair and blue eyes
It is about to embark on such a dangerous journey.
Burrell was furious at the media coverage,
In her letter to the newspaper, she put it this way:
I graduated from one of the most demanding flight schools in the world,
It has a record flight record of 2000 hours.
I'm not flying as a woman.
Rather, as a pilot.
Most of the women who became legends,
Relying on looks and wind,
Barrell was of course good looking, and she was also mercurial enough.
The Berry on the photo is beautiful and dignified,
She's tall,
With a glamorous face and lips with just the right curvature,
Generous looking,
The eyes were cold.
She's been married three times,
She first married because her father's farm in Kenya went bankrupt due to a drought.
She saved her father a large amount of debt by marrying a neighbor.
She was only eighteen years old at the time.
The second time she married a director and producer,
This man has money and taste,
Key is also obsessed with her.
She bore him a son.
However, this enviable marriage eventually ended because of Burrell's leg split.
This shocked london's high society,
Because Burrell's leg splitter was Duke Henry, the third son of George V.
Third marriage,
She married The Hollywood shadow writer Ur Schumacher,
But she still couldn't settle down.
She had countless lovers, famous for having
Pilot Tom Blake, as well
Dennis Fenton
—— The prototype of the male protagonist in "Out of Africa".
Burrell's legendary experience began at a very young age.
This Daughter of the Englishman,
When I was young, I was divorced by my parents,
The father left his brother to his ex-wife,
At the age of four, she came to Kenya with her father.
She followed her father to train horse racing,
"Only two years of education",
"Live without a brain" before the age of 16,
Barefoot on the scalding ground of Africa.
She made friends with black people,
Go hunting with the Maasai,
Carry a shield and spear.
She has fought warthogs,
He was also bitten by a lion...
Her domesticated mare won first place in the Nairobi Horse Racing.
At the age of eighteen, she became the first woman in Africa to hold a horse racing trainer license.
You know, that's 1919.
In those days, many British women even had to ask their husbands or fathers for permission to go out and about.
But Burrell's life has been able to make his own decisions.
A year later, she started flying small planes carrying mail, passengers and supplies in East Africa.
She became the first professional female pilot in Africa.
She would sometimes fly halfway through Africa in the middle of the night to deliver oxygen cylinders to the dying.
She was the first to use an airplane to find the whereabouts of the elephants.
She would sometimes fly thousands of miles alone,
Go to Khartoum, go to Cairo,
Go to Tripoli, go to Tunisia,
Send letters and medicines to distant mining camps.
Flying brought her a lot of joy,
But more often,
She endured the absolute loneliness of flying,
As she wrote,
"I spent so much time alone,
Silence has become a habit."
Burrell is one of the few that even after eliminating all love history,
A woman who can still be called a legend.
After the third divorce, she was alone for life.
She returned to Nairobi to resume her career as a horse racing trainer,
Lived to the age of 84.
It is said that when she was in her 70s, she was seen on the streets of Nairobi.
She walks well, her blonde hair flutters,
The back is like a young woman.
At the age of 80, her home was robbed.
She fought with the gangsters and was seriously injured.
"Fate to those who do not take it into account,
Always unusually generous. ”
Burrell's life is undoubtedly wonderful.
In 1942, she published a memoir of extraordinary experiences
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The book became a monument to travel writing.
After Hemingway read the book,
In a letter to a friend, this is what it says:
She wrote very well, in fact, wonderfully,
So much so that I'm ashamed to be a writer,
She made me feel like I was just a carpenter who handled words.
Indeed, Burrell's writing is moving,
Despite the capital to show off,
But her penmanship is restrained and rarely lyrical.
For a person who has lived at an altitude of eight thousand meters for a long time,
She understood early on what made sense and what didn't make sense.
In the book, she writes:
Maybe wait until you finish your life,
In the end, you find that it is better to know others than to know yourself.
You learn to observe others,
But you never observe yourself,
Because you're struggling with loneliness...
There is probably no second woman who cares less about material things than she does,
But no woman loves to win more than she does.
Burrell spent his life pursuing knowledge, adventure and man,
Except for the money.
She reminds me of Goethe's words:
Eternal Women, guiding us forward.
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