Robyn Scott

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

The Story of an African Childhood
Ill. by Lulu Scott

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Beautifully written, acutely observed This is a wonderful memoir of an exotic childhood and a striking portrait of one of the world's most beguiling countries. A gem of a book.' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Paperbacks / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 36711
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 129mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780747596561
• ISBN-10: 0747596565
• Artikelnr.: 25084361

Autorenporträt

Born in 1981, Robyn Scott spent her childhood in Botswana before beginning her formal education at the age of fourteen in Zimbabwe. Moving to New Zealand for her undergraduate degree, she studied bioinformatics at the University of Auckland. In 2004, she was awarded a Gates Scholarship to Cambridge University, where she took an MPhil in bioscience enterprise and studied the pricing of medicines in developing countries. Robyn lives in london, but visits and works regularly in southern Africa.

Rezensionen

'The nearest thing you will get to Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals in Africa and it is just as enchanting' Giles Foden, Condé Nast Traveller