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Author: Elspeth Huxley Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1446484041 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 575
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In this marvelous anthology, Elspeth Huxley, our best and most popular writer on Africa, has drawn on her unparalleled knowledge of Kenya and its literature to present a fully rounded portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world. In nine sections focusing on exploration, travel, settlement, war, hunting, wildlife, environment, life-styles, and legend and poetry, using only first-hand accounts, she guides the reader through the story of Kenya from AD100 to the present with her characteristic candour and directness.
Author: Elspeth Huxley Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1446484041 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 575
Book Description
In this marvelous anthology, Elspeth Huxley, our best and most popular writer on Africa, has drawn on her unparalleled knowledge of Kenya and its literature to present a fully rounded portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world. In nine sections focusing on exploration, travel, settlement, war, hunting, wildlife, environment, life-styles, and legend and poetry, using only first-hand accounts, she guides the reader through the story of Kenya from AD100 to the present with her characteristic candour and directness.
Author: Elspeth Huxley Publisher: ISBN: Category : Kenya Languages : en Pages :
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The author draws upon her knowledge of Kenya and its literature to present a full portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world, its peoples and wildlife, history and landscape, and the men and women who made their mark upon it.
Author: Elspeth Huxley Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) ISBN: 9780140149852 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 480
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Drawing on her knowledge of Kenya and its literature, Huxley presents a fully rounded portrait of a nation, its peoples and wildlife, history and landscape, and the men and women who made their mark upon it. Isak Dinesen, Ernest Hemingway, the Leakeys, Beryl Markham, Winston Churchill, Evelyn Waugh, and Theodore Roosevelt are among the many writers in this classic anthology.
Author: Howard J. Booth Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719053078 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 356
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This is the first book to explore the fascinating relationship between literary Modernism and Empire. The book seeks to begin the task of exploring, in a sustained way, the relations between the artistic movement and colonialism. The essays range over subjects and figures such as Ireland, Africa, Joyce, Pound, Townsend Warner, Lawrence and Forster, Kipling, Woolf, and Jean Rhys.
Author: C.S. Nicholls Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312300418 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 540
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A portrait of the conservationalist and chronicler of colonial Kenya describes her childhood in east Africa and wartime Britain; marriage to Thomas Huxley; roles as a farmer, writer, and government advisor.
Author: Will Jackson Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526118076 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 222
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Based on over two hundred and fifty psychiatric case files, this book offers a radical new departure from existing historical accounts of what is still commonly thought of as the most picturesque of Britain’s colonies overseas. By tracing the life histories of Kenya’s ‘white insane’, the book allows for a new account of settler society: one that moves attention away from the ‘great white hunters’ and heroic pioneer farmers to all those Europeans who did not manage to emulate the colonial ideal. In doing so, it raises important new questions around deviance, transgression and social control. Sitting at the intersection of a number of fields, the book will appeal to students and teachers of imperial history, colonial medicine, African history and postcolonial theory and will prove a valuable addition to both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Author: Terrence L. Craig Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004346511 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 235
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The White Spaces of Kenyan Settler Writing provides an overview of Kenyan literature by white writers in the half-century before Independence in 1964. Such literature has been over-shadowed by that of black writers to the point of critical ostracism. It deserves attention for its own sake, as the expression of a community that hoped for permanence but suffered both disappointment and dispossession. It deserves attention for its articulation of an increasingly desperate colonial and Imperial situation at a time when both were being attacked and abandoned in Africa, as in other colonies elsewhere, and when a counter-discourse was being constructed by writers in Britain as well as in Africa. Kenya was likely the best-known twentieth-century colony, for it attracted publicity for its iconic safaris and its Happy Valley scandals. Yet behind such scenes were settlers who had taken over lands from the native peoples and who were trying to make a future for themselves, based on the labour, willing or forced, of those people. This situation can be seen as a microcosm of one colonial exercise, and can illuminate the historical tensions of such times. The bibliography is an attempt to collect the literary resources of white Kenya in this historically significant period.
Author: Mike Shanahan Publisher: Unbound Publishing ISBN: 1783522372 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 177
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"Irresistible" - Literary Review Fig trees have affected humanity in profound but little-known ways: they are wish-fulfillers, rainforest royalty, more precious than gold. Ladders to Heaven tells their incredible story. They fed our pre-human ancestors, influenced diverse cultures and played a key role in the birth of civilisation. More recently, they helped restore life after Krakatoa's catastrophic eruption and proved instrumental in Kenya's struggle for independence. Figs now sustain more species of bird and mammal than any other fruit – in a time of falling trees and rising temperatures, they offer hope. Theirs is a story about humanity's relationship with nature, as relevant to our past as it is to our future.
Author: Elspeth Huxley
Author: Elspeth Huxley
Author: Elspeth Huxley
Author: Elspeth Huxley
Author: Elspeth Huxley
Author: Howard J. Booth
Author: C.S. Nicholls
Author: Will Jackson
Author: Glenda Riley
Author: Terrence L. Craig
Author: Mike Shanahan