I was the first pilot to make a successful, non-stop, solo flight from England to North America "the hard way," i.e. from east to west, against the headwinds.
I was born in England and when I was three years old the family moved to Kenya. My childhood was spent on a horse farm, and I learned to ride horses, speak some African languages, and hunt game with a spear. In my youth I had a successful career as a horse trainer.
Later I developed an interest in aviation, got a commercial pilot's license, and because a bush pilot.
In 1936 I flew a borrowed, single-engine Vega Gull with a 200-horsepower engine and no radio equipment from London to Nova Scotia, where I crash landed. A frozen fuel line prevented me from landing in New York city, as intended.
In 1942 I published a book about the deed, West with the Night, which became a best-seller. Ernest Hemingway said about it that I "can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves writers."
The International Astronomical Union honored me by naming a Venusian crater after me.
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