Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood - Hardcover

Scott, Robyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594201595 ISBN 13: 9781594201592

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2008

Synopsis

Documents the author's adventures of growing up in Botswana with her loving and eccentric family, an upbringing marked by her doctor father's yearnings to be a vet, her holistic and home-schooling mother, and the apartheid mind-set embraced by their white neighbors. 40,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

'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, Conde Nast Traveller 'Beautifully written and lovingly told, Scott's book has the makings to be Out of Africa meets Running with Scissors' New York Times Book Review 'A fabulous read, rollicking, good-humoured and intensely sane' Alexandra Fuller 'Scott does more than simply record her African adventures. She tackles the difficult issue of race, revealing a shift in white attitudes across the generations [and] remind[s] us that southern Africa has many different histories' Independent

About the Author:

Robyn Scott was homeschooled until she was fourteen, when she began boarding school in Zimbabwe. At university in Auckland, New Zealand, she earned a B.Sc. in bioinformatics. She was awarded a Gates Scholarship to Cambridge University, where she received a master's in bioscience enterprise. Scott currently lives in London, where in her spare time she is establishing an AIDS orphan charity with her mother. She is twenty-six years old.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594201595
• ISBN 13: 9781594201592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 453