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My Kenya Days.
de THESIGER, Wilfred
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London: Harper Collins, 1994.. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Large 8vo. (24.5 x 16.5 cm). pp.xiv+224. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. With the unclipped dust-jacket. Numerous monochrome photographic illustrations and one full-page map. This copy is accompanied by a Waterstones leaflet of "Author Events, April-August 1994" in which Thesiger participated on the 17th of May. Signed by Thesiger on the title-page. My Kenya Days is a postscript to his autobiography, which he dictated because of his failing eyesight, between 1992 and 1993 while staying at Maralal, Kenya. "During more than fifty years spent travelling Thesiger (1910-2003) documented magnificently, by his photography and prose, peoples and ways of life which by the time of his death had changed irrevocably or else had vanished altogether" (ODNB).
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