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Title: A Stone's Throw. Travels from Africa in Six Decades.
Description: Hutchinson 1986 1st edition. Blue cloth boards. 373pp illustrated 8vo. 0.9kg. Gift inscription to front pastedown, a bit dusty else VG condition in lesser dustwrapper (light wear, a bit worn along top edges, no tears or loss). ISBN: 9780091659103 Author moved to Kenya in her early twenties where she came to know all the leading figures of the settler community. From the 1920s she developed a taste for lone travel to distant places. Drawn from sixty years of her personal journal of the years 1914 to 1981 this is a view of the world from a privileged person.

Keywords: east africa african biography autobiography kenya

Price: GBP 20.00 = appr. US$ 28.56 Seller: Fables Bookhop
- Book number: 27180