The Ghosts of Happy Valley : Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats

The Ghosts of Happy Valley : Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats

Quarto Publishing PLC

Happy Valley was the name given to the Wanjohi Valley in the Kenya Highlands, where a small community of affluent, hedonistic white expatriates settled between the wars. While Kenya's early colonial days have been immortalised by farming pioneers like Lord Delamere and Karen Blixen, and the pioneering aviator Beryl Markham, Happy Valley became infamous under the influence of troubled socialite, Lady Idina Sackville, whose life was told in Frances Osborne's bestselling The Bolter. The era culminated with the notorious murder of the Earl of Erroll in 1941, the investigation of which laid bare the Happy Valley set's decadence and irresponsibility, chronicled in another bestseller, James Fox's White Mischief. But what is left now?\n In a remarkable and indefatigable archaeological quest, Juliet\n\nThe Ghosts of Happy Valley\nSearching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal M;

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