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^ Good that! I actually read her book, 1942's. West With the Night Her character is featured in the movie Out of Africa (what aerial photog/music! ) The lady knew how to 'get around'! She also became the first licensed female racehorse trainer in Kenya; and rapidly becoming a successful and renowned figure among the racing community of Kenya. Finch Hatton began a love affair with Beryl Markham, who was working as a race-horse trainer in Nairobi and the surrounding area. This relationship inspired Markham to take up flying; later, she would become known as a pioneer flyer herself (however, Markham attributed her interest in flying to her association with famed pilot Tom Campbell Black https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Campbell_Black) ...Lady's choice in 'affairs' always!

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She befriended the Danish writer Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep) during the years that Baroness Blixen was managing her family's coffee farm in the Ngong hills outside Nairobi. When Blixen's romantic connection with the hunter and pilot Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) was winding down, Markham started her own affair with him. He invited her to tour game lands on what turned out to be his fatal flight, but Markham supposedly declined because of a premonition of her flight instructor, British pilot Tom Campbell Black. Largely inspired by Tom Campbell Black, with whom she had a long-term affair, Markham took up flying. She worked for some time as a bush pilot, spotting game animals from the air and signaling their locations to safaris on the ground. She also mingled with the notorious Happy Valley set.

Too bad about the substitute for Ms Markham: Finch Hatton's Gypsy Moth took off from Voi airport, circled the airport twice, then plunged to the ground and burst into flames. Finch Hatton and his Kĩkũyũ servant Kamau were killed.