Search Results: Returned 6 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 6
-
-
c2015., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic McL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Brought to Kenya as a small child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised both by her father--a racehorse trainer--and the native Kipsigis tribe on her father's land. Her unconventional upbringing transforms her into a daring young woman, with a love of all things wild, but everything she knows and trusts dissolves when her father's farm goes bankrupt. Reeling from the scandal and heartbreak, Beryl is catapulted into a disastrous marriage at the age of 16. Finally she makes the courageous decision to break free, forging her own path as a horse trainer and shocking high society in the process. The British colony has never seen a woman as determined and fiery as Beryl. Before long, she catches the eye of the fascinating and bohemian Happy Valley set, including writer Karen Blixen and her lover Denys Finch Hatton, who will later be immortalized in Blixen's memoir, Out of Africa. The three become embroiled in a complex triangle that changes the course of Beryl's life, setting tragedy in motion while awakening her to her truest self and her fate: to fly.
-
-
2014., Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC Call No: BLK Fic Owu Edition: First Vintage Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A novel that opens with a young man's murder on the day of the tumultuous 2007 election in Kenya, but then goes into the history of his family and of the splintered African nation around them--in scenes stretching back to a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s"--
-
-
-- Private lives.[2004]., WGBH Boston Video Call No: DVD Fic Heat Sun 1 Edition: Full screen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Albert Tyburn, a brash former Scotland Yard detective transplanted to Kenya for a new assignment, investigates the disappearance of millionairess Lady Daphane Ellesmere.
![Heat of the sun; private lives [DVD] (1998). Directed by Adrian Shergold. Private lives /](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Heat of the sun; private lives [DVD] (1998). Directed by Adrian Shergold. Private lives /")
-
-
2005., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic I Dreamed Edition: [Fullscreen version]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Epic tale of a woman's quest for adventure and a new life in the majestic, untamed lands of rural Africa. A passionate film about love, loss and personal triumph.
-
-
-- Inbetween world of Vikram Lall :c2003., Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Vas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
