Among the many writers whose words bring the African experience to life are: Errol Trzebinski, Roy Campbell, Iain and Auroria Douglas-Hume, Angela Fisher, Carl Jung, Frank Kitson, Hugo van Lawick, Jane Goodall, Margery Perham, George Schaller, Theodore Roosevelt, Mirella and Lorenzo Ricciardi, John Reader, Harvey Croze, George & Joy Adamson, Karen Blixen, Winston Churchill, Cyril Connolly, Ernest Hemingway, Jomo Kenyatta, Richard and Mary Leakey, Beryl Markham, Shiva Naipaul, Laurens van der Post, Evelyn Waugh and Elspeth Huxley herself. In this marvelous anthology, the late Elspeth Huxley, still 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 AD 100 to the present with her characteristic candour.
Elspeth Huxley was born in 1907 and first went to Africa in 1913. The story of her childhood years, memorably dramatised for television by John Hawkesworth in 1982, was told in The Flame Trees of Thika (1959) and its sequel, The Mottled Lizard. She returned to England in 1925 and studied agriculture at Reading Univeristy and Cornell. She married Gervas Huxley in 1931 and during the thirties travelled widely with him in Africa, America, Australia and elsewhere. Among her many novels, biographies, travel books and memoirs are several about East Africa, including White Man's Country, Red Strangers, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Forks and Hope, Nellie: Letters from Africa and Last Days in Eden. In 1962 she was awarded the CBE. Her last book was a biography of Peter Scott. She died in 1997.
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