Have you read any of these books?

Frankie Featherstone has compiled a list of her personal recommendations of books which have East African themes. Please let me know if you have personal recommendations you would like to add to the list.   webmaster@highlandseldoret.org

 

Ivory, Apes & Peacocks: Animals, Adventure and Discovery in the Wild Places of Africa.
Alan Root (2012)

Wildflower:  The extraordinary Life and Mysterious murder of Joan Root
Mark Seal (2011)

And Miles to Go before I Sleep:  A British vet in Africa   (Stories from a Nakuru-based vet)
Hugh Cran (2009)

Blood Sisters
Barbara & Stephanie Keating (2006)

A Durable Fire
Barbara & Stephanie Keating (2007)

In Borrowed Light
Barbara & Stephanie Keating (2011)

Speak Swahili Dammit!  (Biographical account of a small boy’s life by Lake Victoria)
James Penhaligon (2011)

Too Close to the Sun:  The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Sara Wheeler (2006)

An African Love Story:  Love, Life and Elephants
Daphne Seldrick (2013)

Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller* (2003)

Cocktail Hour Under The Tree Of Forgetfulness  (Including Nicola Huntingford’s time at Highlands School Eldoret)
Alexandra Fuller* (2012)

 Scribbling the Cat
Alexandra Fuller* (2014)

Dreams in a time of War:  A childhood memoir.  (Memoir of an extraordinary Kenyan childhood by a widely celebrated Kenyan international author.)
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (2011)

Red Strangers:  The White Tribe Of Kenya.   (Early settlers)
C.S. Nicholls (2005)

*Alexandra Fuller is the daughter of Nicola Huntingford who was at The Highlands with many of us in the 1960s.