Authors: Paula McLain
Circling the Sun
This is a work of historical fiction, using well-known historical and public figures. All incidents and dialogue are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2015 by Paula McLain
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
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McLain, Paula.
Circling the sun : a novel / Paula McLain.
pages ; cm
ISBN 978-0-345-53418-7
eBook ISBN 978-0-345-53419-4
1. Markham, Beryl—Fiction. 2. Women air pilots—Africa—Fiction. 3. Triangles (Interpersonal relations)—Fiction. 4. Kenya—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.C383495C57 2015
813'.54—dc23
2015011091
eBook ISBN 9780345534194
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“I learned to watch, to put my trust in other hands than mine. And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know—that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it. These I learned at once. But most things came harder.”
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West with the Night“We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.”
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