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Tanganyika Tales

Tanganyika Tales

Malet, Ermyntrude

Paperback

AnimalsBiographyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 1922954136
ISBN13: 9781922954138
Publisher: James Gresham
Published: Jan 31 2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.83
Height: 0.66 Width: 11.00 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

As a young child I was captivated by a shabby old book filled with hand-drawn pictures, erratically typed text, and a cover made of cardboard and wall paper. It was all tightly bound together with string but had seen better days. It was a particular treasure of my mother's.

She had spent most of her early childhood in Tanganyika, which is now known as Tanzania. Her father was the Assistant District Commissioner of the area, a British public servant administrator from a time when Tanganyika was a British colony, and her mother was a nurse. Her mother (my grandmother) had written, hand-illustrated and bound the little book. It is four delightful tales of four adventurous siblings from what was, in many ways, a golden era of colonial East Africa, around the end of World War II.

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