Forks and Hope: An African Notebook
by Huxley, Elspeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1964. xi, 272, b/w illus to text. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, faded to head and foot of spine. Owner's name to endpaper. Vg in d/w (some edge wear; in removable protective sleeve).. First edition. Illustrations by Jonathan Kingdom. Early in 1963, Elspeth Huxley spent three months in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda, this is a record of her travels through game game parks, meetings with political leaders and seeing Kenya's 'white highlands' broken up into small holdings for Africans..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S57652
- Title
- Forks and Hope: An African Notebook
- Author
- Huxley, Elspeth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- East Africa; Travel Narrative
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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