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Author:
Barnes, Juliet.
Title:
The ghosts of Happy Valley : searching for the lost world of Africa's infamous aristocrats / Juliet Barnes.
Publisher:
Aurum,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xvi, 318 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 23 cm.
Subject:
British--Kenya--History--20th century.
British--Kenya--History--19th century.
Kenya--History--1895-1963.
Notes:
SEP15. Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-307) and index.
Summary:
'Happy Valley' was the name given to the region of Kenya's Highlands where a community of hedonistic white expatriates settled between the wars. Juliet Barnes has explored Happy Valley in a remarkable and indefatigable archaeological quest to find the homes and haunts of this extraordinary and vanished set of people.
ISBN:
1781310858
9781781310854 (hc)
Locations:
KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)

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