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Title: Elspeth Huxley: A Biography by C. S. Nicholls, C.S. Nicholls ISBN: 0-312-30041-7 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting
Comment: With Liberia making headlines as to send or not to send that is the president's question (it only took fourteen years and three administrations to get to that point), a biography on Elspeth Huxley, known for her writings on Africa, seems timely. The book provides a fascinating glimpse of what seems like an archaic philosophy today, but only a few decades ago was acceptable. C.S. Nicholls analyzes Huxley's vast works that for the most part defend the English dominant position in much of Africa throughout the first half of the twentieth century.
The biography is extremely strong when the author paints an insightful and propitious picture that enables readers to better understand bygone eras. Huxley lived for most of the century (1907-1997) and what she supported through her writings has been one of the key factors that later led to much of the devastation that the continent has faced since the 1960s and 1970s independence movements succeeded. The only flaw is that author C.S. Nicholls rationalizes Huxley's defense of white colonialism, turning the biographer into an apologist rather than being a historiographer and thereby placing Huxley in a wider social text. Still the book is well written and will keep readers interested in a proficient, but not popular defender of the crown.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: An apology of Huxley's racism and colonialism
Comment: Having loved The Flame Trees of Thika (both book and PBS Masterpiece Theater series), I eagerly awaited this biography of author, conservationist, and defender of colonialist England -and for the most part it doesn't disappoint. Huxley is a difficult subject to pin down politically, as her opinions shifted with the tide of the changing times. She lived through the fall and failure of the colonial period, and her best and most loving writing comes from the era when it was in full bloom: the period around both sides of the First World War. As an old woman (she lived to age 90) in the mid 90s, she still held to some of her beliefs concerning the benefits of English rule of Africa.
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Title: The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Elspeth Huxley ISBN: 0141183780 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 31 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Mottled Lizard by Elspeth Huxley ISBN: 014005958X Publisher: Penguin USA (P) Pub. Date: 01 April, 1982 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya by Elspeth Huxley ISBN: 0140092560 Publisher: Penguin USA (P) Pub. Date: 01 April, 1988 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title:Nowhere in Africa (German with English Subtitles) ASIN: B0000AUHQG Publisher: Columbia Tristar Hom Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.96 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $23.75 |
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Title: Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook by Nicholas Thomas ISBN: 0802714129 Publisher: Walker & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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