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Red Strangers (Penguin Classics) by Huxley, Elspeth Joscelin Grant, 1907- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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New editions of Elspeth Huxley's stirring account of her childhood in Kenya and her novel of the destructive forces of colonization. <br> <br> Epic in its scale, <i>Red Strangers</i> spans four generations of a Kikuyu family in Africa and their relationship with European settlers, nicknamed "red" strangers because of their sunburns. Huxley's engrossing portrait of a Kenyan tribe and their way of life, with its rituals, its beliefs, its codes and its morality, shows Europeans and their customs in stark, unflattering contrast with the Kikuyu. The differences in their attitudes to war, methods of cultivation, the administering of justice, and the use of money are played out in this novel of the damaging forces of colonization.<br> <br> With an Introduction by Richard Dawkins <p>Elspeth Huxley (1907-1997) was educated at the European school in Nairobi and at Reading University. Her books include novels, detective fiction, biography, and travel writing.<br> <br> Richard Dawkins is an eminent zoologist who holds an endowed chair at Oxford University and is the author of <i>The Selfish Gene</i> and <i>Unweaving the Rainbow</i>.</p>

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Author
Huxley, Elspeth Joscelin Grant, 1907-
Publisher
London ; New York: Penguin Books
Published
1999
Language
EN
ISBN
9780141182056
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Fiction
Rating
4.15 / 5 (111 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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