Letters from Africa – with a memoir by Elspeth Huxley –

Nellie Grant

“‘Mothers aren’t good subjects for biographies unless like Queen Victoria or Cleopatra,’ said Nellie Grant. But in this delightful memoir with a selection of letters, her daughter, Elspeth Huxley, paints an intimate portrait of a courageous, amusing and observant individual whose zest for life withstood many batterings. The correspondence, spanning more than forty years, provides an intriguing record of the life-style of an unconventional white settler in bygone days.
With her husband Jos, Nellie emigrated in 1912 in the heyday of the British Empire. In the fifties she witnessed the terrifying events of the Mau Mau revolt, and in the sixties the emergence of the new Africa. That once remote colony, the haunt of rugged pioneers, primitive tribes, missionaries and big game, had become the thriving independent republic of Kenya. At the age of eighty, Nellie retired to Portugal where once again she set about the business of becoming self-sufficient.”


Kenmerken

ISBN

9780297783640

Uitgever

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Uitgave

1984

Oorspronkelijk

1973

Artikelnummer: 5991 Categorie:
Talen Engels
Landen Kenia Tanzania

Beschrijving

paperback, 326 blz, in goede staat (lichte leesvouwen in de rug)

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