# Quote — Beryl Markham, West With The Night

> A map says to you, "Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not." It says, "I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost."

- Author: [Beryl Markham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/beryl-markham.md)
- Book: [West With The Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/beryl-markham/west-with-the-night.md)
- Page: 245
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Beryl_Markham#West_with_the_Night_(1942)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/beryl-markham/west-with-the-night/a-map-says

## More from this book

> Moreover, it seemed that the printers of the African maps had a slightly malicious habit of including, in large letters, the names of town, junctions, and villages which, while most of them did exist in fact, as a group of thatched huts may exist or a water hole, they were usually so inconsequential as completely to escape discovery from the cockpit.

p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/beryl-markham/west-with-the-night/moreover-it-seemed.md)

> So far as I know I was the only professional woman pilot in Africa at that time period I had no freelance competition in Kenya, man or woman.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/beryl-markham/west-with-the-night/so-far-as-i-know.md)

> Why I ran at all or with what purpose in mind is beyond my answering, but when I had no specific destination I always ran as fast as I could in the hope of finding one--and I always found one.

p. 57 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/beryl-markham/west-with-the-night/why-i-ran.md)