To the Mysterious Lorian Swamp

To the Mysterious Lorian Swamp
Author: Cecil Walter Inglefield Wightwick Haywood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1927
Genre: Jubaland
ISBN:

A Book of Man Eaters

A Book of Man Eaters
Author: Reginald George Burton
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1931
Genre: Animal behavior
ISBN:

Habits and behaviour of carnivorous animals, with reference to man-eaters.

The White Spaces of Kenyan Settler Writing

The White Spaces of Kenyan Settler Writing
Author: Terrence L. Craig
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004346511

The White Spaces of Kenyan Settler Writing provides an overview of Kenyan literature by white writers in the half-century before Independence in 1964. Such literature has been over-shadowed by that of black writers to the point of critical ostracism. It deserves attention for its own sake, as the expression of a community that hoped for permanence but suffered both disappointment and dispossession. It deserves attention for its articulation of an increasingly desperate colonial and Imperial situation at a time when both were being attacked and abandoned in Africa, as in other colonies elsewhere, and when a counter-discourse was being constructed by writers in Britain as well as in Africa. Kenya was likely the best-known twentieth-century colony, for it attracted publicity for its iconic safaris and its Happy Valley scandals. Yet behind such scenes were settlers who had taken over lands from the native peoples and who were trying to make a future for themselves, based on the labour, willing or forced, of those people. This situation can be seen as a microcosm of one colonial exercise, and can illuminate the historical tensions of such times. The bibliography is an attempt to collect the literary resources of white Kenya in this historically significant period.

Letters from the Horn of Africa, 1923–1942

Letters from the Horn of Africa, 1923–1942
Author: Christian Curle
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2009-04-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781598460

After brief service in the Gordon Highlanders as part of the Army of Occupation of the Rhine post Great War, Sandy Curle sought more adventurous soldiering and in 1923 was seconded to the Kings African Rifles (KAR). Aged 23 he found himself in remotest Somaliland in sole charge and the only European for miles. At one point delirious with typhoid he was only saved by the surprise visit of an Indian doctor. Later he served in Kenya and undertook numerous military expeditions.In 1929 Curle joined the Colonial Service again in Somaliland and Ethiopia. He witnessed the Italians aggression which led to their invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. A spell in Tanganyika as a District Officer followed and on the outbreak of war he rejoined the KAR and was attached to the Somaliland Camel Corps when the Italians invaded. Hopelessly outnumbered, Sandy and his men withdrew to Kenya by troopship.His next assignment was to raise, train and command a battalion of Ethiopian irregulars (Curles Irregulars) and with these he led the reoccupation of Ethiopia winning the DSO and Ethiopian Military Medal.In 1966 Curle was one of 25 veterans invited by Emperor Haile Selaise to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the liberation from Italian rule.This is a vivid and fascinating collection of correspondence covering some 30 years of war and uncertain peace.