The ghosts of Happy Valley : searching for the lost world of Africa's infamous aristocrats
Barnes, Juliet2014
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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 immortalized 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. 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. But what is left now? In an archaeological quest, Juliet Barnes, who has lived in Kenya all her life and whose grandparents knew some of the Happy Valley characters, has set out to explore Happy Valley to find the former homes and haunts of this extraordinary and transient set of people.
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London : Aurum Press, 2014.
Collation:
xvi, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
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Originally published: 2013.
ISBN:
9781781311677 (pbk)
Dewey class:
967.62967.62967.62 BARN
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967.62
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English
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1810419
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