Something of Value

Description

Something of Value is a novel based on events that took place in Kenya Colony during the violent Mau Mau insurrection of the 1950s, an uprising that was confined almost exclusively to members of the Kikuyu tribe. It is a powerful, gripping, and sometimes shocking novel that presents an enlightening glimpse into the lives of all sections of the population in Colonial Kenya fifty years ago.

Description

Kenya . . . paradise in Africa. Paradise for men and women who had worked hard, who played hard, and loved hard. Paradise for people like the McKenzies, with a fine farm and comforts and a lusty, growing family, where Peter, their son, grew up with Kimani, the headman's son. But evil was stirring in the forests and mountains, and in the shacks of the Nairobi slums. The Mau Mau was beginning to take its terrible hold on the people. There are things in this book to shock and disturb, but there has been no exaggeration, no heightening of the horrors. Robert Ruark lived in Kenya for several years, and writes with equal sympathy and understanding of the problems of both settlers and natives.

First Sentence

Peter McKenzie stripped off his faded shorts and his green drill shirt and reached for a bowl of ocher mud which had been softened to a pliant paste with water.

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Other Editions

• Something of ValueLibrary BindingBuccaneer Books1991-06-01
• Something of value.H.Hamilton1955-01-01
• Something of value.Landsborough Publications1958-01-01
• Something of valueCorgi1970-01-01
• Something of value.Hamilton1972-01-01
• Something of valueCorgi1980-01-01