African Nights - Hardcover

Gallmann, Kuki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708934269 ISBN 13: 9780708934265

Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

Stunningly repackaged, Kuki Gallmann's African Nights vividly portrays the harsh and beautiful landscapes of Africa.

Africa evokes a deep sense of mystery. It is a place that retains what most of the world has lost: space, roots, traditions, awesome beauty, true wilderness, rare animals, and extraordinary people. In this wonderful and haunting collection of stories, Kuki Gallmann writes of her life in Africa, where every day brings challenge and adventure.

African Nights is a treasury of memories, in which fascinating people and places are brought to life. It he healing powers Africa can have on those who embrace the land as a place of mystery, superstition, danger, and beauty.

'Captures perfectly the magic of Kenya, creating an almost overwhelming picture of beauty and drama, pain and joy, death and resurrection . . . Her discovery of African culture, with its mystery and danger, is recounted in spare, lyrical prose' New York Times

'Powerful, poetic, unbearably moving: I wept' Clare Francis (on I Dreamed of Africa)

Kuki Gallmann was born near Venice and moved to Kenya in 1972 with her husband and young son. Following their deaths, she set up the Gallmann Memorial Foundation to promote new ways of combining development and conservation, and to provide sponsorship for the education of Kenyans. Her first book, I Dreamed of Africa, was published in 1991 to international acclaim and it became a world-wide bestseller. She lives in Kenya with her daughter and her dogs.

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Review:

Captures perfectly the magic of Kenya, creating an almost overwhelming picture of beauty and drama, pain and joy, death and resurrection . . . Her discovery of African culture, with its mystery and danger, is recounted in spare, lyrical prose. (New York Times)

Powerful, poetic, unbearably moving: I wept (Clare Francis (on 'I Dreamed of Africa')

From the Back Cover:

Kuki Gallmann, whose haunting bestseller I Dreamed of Africa so perfectly the beauty and drama of the Kenyan Highlands, and who so generously bared her heart to its readers, here evokes through a tapestry of interwoven true episodes the magic that touches all African life.

The adventure of a moonlit picnic on a vanishing island; her son's entrancement with chameleons and the mystical visit of a king cobra to his grave; the mysterious compassion of an elephant herd -in each event, Kuki Gallmann conveys her delight and wonder at the whole fabric of creation.

She recounts touching moments with people passing through, and enduring friendships constantly renewed; strange and wonderful encounters with animals; the magnificence of the coast and mountains, forest and Savannah. and reveals, in addition to the harmony between man and his environment, the intrinsic beauty of Africa's soul.

'How is it that women write so stunningly about Kenya...the chapters are like brief and memorable pieces of music - haunting, exact' - Ronald Blythe in Country Life

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0708934269
• ISBN 13: 9780708934265
• Binding: Hardcover