The ghosts of Happy Valley
Subtitle: searching for the lost world of Africa's infamous aristocrats
By: Juliet Barnes
Publisher: Aurum
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781781310854; 9781781311677
Subjects: British; History
Description: 'Happy Valley' was the name given to the region of Kenya's Highlands where a community of hedonistic white expatriates settled between the wars. Juliet Barnes has explored Happy Valley in a remarkable and indefatigable archaeological quest to find the homes and haunts of this extraordinary and vanished set of people.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-307) and index.