Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley - ISBN: 9780141188508
Paperback
Kenya changed forever when red strangers brought disease and foreign rule.
  • 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
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
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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