Pioneers' Scrapbook: Reminiscences of Kenya, 1890 to 1968

by Elspeth Huxley (Editor)

From DJ flap - Between 1890 and the Second World War, Europeans were encouraged by the British government to chance their arm in a new country, Kenya. This book is a portrait of their successes and failures in establishing homes, farms, shops, hotels and factories in this beautiful African country. This narration and illustration recreates the vivid human and physical landscape of Kenya as seen by the pioneers. (Description by http-mart)

160 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1980

About the author

Elspeth Joscelin Huxley was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.