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Elspeth Huxley, who spent her early years on a small farm in Kenya in the early 1900s, recreates for us a vanished Africa, and shows it to us from the magical and arresting viewpoint of a perceptive child. It is an Africa of plentiful big game, rich tribal culture, and white settlers striving to wrest fortunes from the unforgiving bush. The book ends with the start of WW I and the breakup of this relatively untroubled phase of colonial life. Happily there is a sequel,THE MOTTLED LIZARD. "A vivid evocation of the ways and landscape of antique Africa...Can well stand in comparison with Isak Dinesen's OUT OF AFRICA." (Atlantic Monthly)
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