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25%OFFJuliet Barnes - The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats - 9781781311677 - V9781781311677
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The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats

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Description for The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats Paperback. The Ghosts of Happy Valley is a mesmerising blend of travel narrative, social history and personal quest. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJG; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.

Happy Valley was the name given to the Wanjohi Valley in the Kenya Highlands, where a small community of affluent, hedonistic white expatriates settled between the wars. While Kenya's early colonial days have been immortalised by farming pioneers like Lord Delamere and Karen Blixen, and the pioneering aviator Beryl Markham, Happy Valley became infamous under the influence of troubled socialite, Lady Idina Sackville, whose life was told in Frances Osborne's bestselling The Bolter. The era culminated with the notorious murder of the Earl of Erroll in 1941, the investigation of which laid bare the Happy Valley set's decadence and irresponsibility, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Aurum Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781311677
SKU
V9781781311677
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About Juliet Barnes
Juliet Barnes was born and schooled in Kenya, and went to St Andrew’s University, Scotland. Today, she lives with her two children Lord Delamere’s ranch beside Lake Elmenteita in Kenya’s Rift Valley, looking out over the mountains surrounding “Happy Valley”. She writes for magazines and newspapers in the UK and Kenya and has had children’s fiction and non-fiction published in ... Read more

Reviews for The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats
‘A problem with the depiction of Happy Valley arises when you encounter stories like that of Mary Miller, to whom I am very distantly related. Juliet Barnes hears that Mary ‘lived off lorry-loads of champagne and booze before shooting herself…’ Also that she and her husband were on the edge of the notorious party set in their home near the ... Read more

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