Anthea Ramsay

Forgotten Pioneer (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Anthea Ramsay's grandfather was one of the first white men to set foot in Nairobi when it was a newly discovered, barren and dangerous place, devoid of human life but teeming with wild animals. He lived in a tent and had many close encounters with lions and aggressive African tribes with poisoned arrows who had wandered into the area. Her stoical grandmother joined him in 1905 and they started a family - four generations later that family still lives in Kenya. The Forgotten Pioneer traces the lives of the author's family through three generations, starting with her grandfather who left his home in Kent in 1899 at the age of 22 to work as an accountant for the newly started Uganda railway. Neither he, his family or his fiance ever imagined that he would fall under the spell of Africa and stay there for the rest of his life!The author describes her parents' decadent lives on the edge of the Happy Valley set and the murder of Lord Erroll, followed by her childhood living through the horrors of the Mau Mau rebellion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Troubador Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789012705
• Artikelnr.: 54200143

Autorenporträt

Anthea Ramsay was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1940. Her three children were born in Africa, and her eldest daughter still lives in Kenya. Since 1978 Anthea has lived in England, beginning an international nanny and au pair agency in 1980 which is now run by one of her daughters.She has eight grandchildren and lives in Surrey with her husband and two cats, and is currently writing her second biography about her Huguenot ancestors.