Among the many writers whose words bring the African experience to life are: Errol Trzebinski, Roy Campbell, Iain and Auroria Douglas-Hume, Angela Fisher, Carl Jung, Frank Kitson, Hugo van Lawick, Jane Goodall, Margery Perham, George Schaller, Theodore Roosevelt, Mirella and Lorenzo Ricciardi, John Reader, Harvey Croze, George & Joy Adamson, Karen Blixen, Winston Churchill, Cyril Connolly, Ernest Hemingway, Jomo Kenyatta, Richard and Mary Leakey, Beryl Markham, Shiva Naipaul, Laurens van der Post, Evelyn Waugh and Elspeth Huxley herself. In this marvelous anthology, the late Elspeth Huxley, still our best and most popular writer on Africa, has drawn on her unparalleled knowledge of Kenya and its literature to present a fully rounded portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world. In nine sections, focusing on exploration, travel, settlement, war, hunting, wildlife, environment, life-styles, and legend and poetry, using only first-hand accounts, she guides the reader through the story of Kenya from AD 100 to the present with her characteristic candour.