West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.

Memoirs of an English woman who was raised in East Africa and became a pilot in the 1930s. In 1936 she became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. She lived in America for years until she returned to Kenya in 1948.

Twenty-two stories on horses. They range from Rudyard Kipling's The Maltese Cat, to Rick Bass' Wild Horses, to John Steinbeck's The Red Pony. Golden edited In Praise of Mothers.