West With the Night, by Beryl Markham. It’s a beautiful autobiography about and by a woman who grew up in British East Africa, became a bush pilot, and eventually became the first person to fly across the Atlantic from East to West, departing from Britain.

I recommend not reading the introduction.

https://www.amazon.com/West-Night-Memoir-Beryl-Markham/dp/08...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Markham