west with the night

one of randy's students gave us this book and i finally got around to reading it. i really enjoyed it. it is an autobiography about the first woman (or man) to do a solo flight across the atlantic from east to west. her writing was beautiful, poetic, and so descriptive that it made me feel like i had grown up in africa and been flying an airplane all my life. she led a remarkable life and relayed her life experiences in a great autobiography.