Kona Stories hosts a travel book club discussing “West with the Night” by Beryl Markham on Tuesday. ADVERTISING Kona Stories hosts a travel book club discussing “West with the Night” by Beryl Markham on Tuesday. The group meets at 6:30
Kona Stories hosts a travel book club discussing “West with the Night” by Beryl Markham on Tuesday.
The group meets at 6:30 p.m. at the store. Book groups are free if books are purchased at Kona Stories, or a $5 donation is requested.
Markham is often described as “the first person” to fly the Atlantic east-to-west in a solo, nonstop flight, though most now dispute this claim. When Markham decided to take on the Atlantic crossing, no pilot had yet flown nonstop from Europe to New York, and no woman had made the westward flight solo, though several had died trying. Markham hoped to claim both records. On Sept. 4, 1936, she took off from England. After a 20-hour flight, she crash-landed at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. In spite of falling short of her goal, Markham had become the first woman to cross the Atlantic east-to-west solo, and the first person to make it from England to North America nonstop. She was celebrated as an aviation pioneer.
Info: 324-0350, www.konastories.com.
