Red Strangers
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2006
Summary
New edition in Modern Classics of Elspeth Huxley’s stirring account of her childhood in Kenya and her novel of the destructive forces of colonization
Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, the brothers Matu and Muthegi are raised according to customs that, they are told, have existed since the beginning of the world. But when the ‘red’ strangers come, sunburned Europeans who seek to colonize their homeland, the lives of the two Kikuyu tribesmen begin to change in dramatic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141188508 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141188502 |
| Author: | Elspeth Huxley, Richard Dawkins |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 315g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Elspeth Huxley
Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997) was the daughter of Major Josceline Grant of Njoro, Kenya where she spent most of her childhood. She was educated at the European School in Nairobi and at Reading University where she took a diploma in agriculture, and at Cornell University. In 1929 she joined the Empire Marketing Board as a press officer and, following her marriage to Gervase Huxley in 1931, travelled widely with him in America, Africa and elsewhere.
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