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kittiwakeI jab the Baron's ribs once more and he takes a step forward - a single step - and freezes. He does not tremble. With his ears and his eyes and by the sheer power of his will, he forces me into silence, into rigidity, into consciousness of danger.
I feel and see it at the same moment. Wreathed in leaves of shining grass, framed in the soft green garland of the foliage, there is an immense black head into which are sunk two slowly burning eyes, Upon the head, extending from it like lances fixed for battle, are the two horns of a buffalo. I am young, but I am still a child of Africa - and I know that these, without any question, are Africa's most dreaded weapon.
Eight short stories by the Kenya based racehorse trainer and aviator, who was brought up in Kenya from the age of three. Her biographer who put this collection of stories together, suspects that three more romantic tales were actually written by her second husband, but I found those to be the least interesting of the stories. The best stories are about things that Beryl Markham was passionate about - horses and Africa.
I feel and see it at the same moment. Wreathed in leaves of shining grass, framed in the soft green garland of the foliage, there is an immense black head into which are sunk two slowly burning eyes, Upon the head, extending from it like lances fixed for battle, are the two horns of a buffalo. I am young, but I am still a child of Africa - and I know that these, without any question, are Africa's most dreaded weapon.
Eight short stories by the Kenya based racehorse trainer and aviator, who was brought up in Kenya from the age of three. Her biographer who put this collection of stories together, suspects that three more romantic tales were actually written by her second husband, but I found those to be the least interesting of the stories. The best stories are about things that Beryl Markham was passionate about - horses and Africa.
