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Red Dust Of Kenya - This book has 282 pages, no maps and no photos inside. Author was born in Switzerland and marries John an English pioneer to live in Saltlick Valley of Kenya. On their 1000 acre farm, they struggled, suffered from solitude and come to term with Nyika (wilderness). Her daughter was born on the farm. Gradually she comes to love the wild. There is a B/W large photo of the author on the back of the dust wrapper. On arrival,an oxen cart takes them on dirty red roads to the nyika. The masai co by Alyse Simpson

Complete Memoirs of George Sherston - Cricket pitches, fox hunting, the dying days of Edwardian England through the eyes of the privileged. And then The Great War. One of England's great literary figures brings all this alive. Unlike so many of his contemporaries he survived(if damaged) to record this transition. Brilliantly evocative....the male, early 20th century Jane Austen by Siegfried Sassoon

East Toward Dawn: A Woman's Solo Journey Around the World - On the eve of her sixtieth birthday, Nan Watkins decided to embark on the around-the-globe trip she had always dreamed of -- a trip she would take alone. Having endured both the dissolution of her thirty-year marriage and the devastating death of her twenty-three-year-old son, the author resolved to follow a solo path east across Europe and Asia to renew connections with old friends and explore foreign lands and cultures. Over adventure-filled week by Nan Watkins

My Reminiscences Of East Africa by Gen. von Lettow-Vorbeck von Lettow-Vorbeck

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood & The Story of a Return: v. 1 & v. 2 by Marjane Satrapi

The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters by Charlotte Mosley

Kiki's Memoirs - From Booklist Known as the queen of Montparnasse, Kiki was the quintessential artists' muse and model. She epitomized the verve of 1920s Paris--with her strong and alluring face and graceful and voluptuous body--and became a modern icon in the photographs of her longtime lover, Man Ray. Kiki and her circle were presented with great flair in Kiki's Paris (1989), and now this lovingly produced edition of her memoirs, introduced by Ernest Hemingway and illustrated with her charming drawings an by Kiki

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