About this title: Something of Value is a novel based on events that took place in Kenya Colony during the violent Mau Mau insurrection of the 1950s, an uprising that was confined almost exclusively to members of the Kikuyu tribe. It is a powerful, gripping, and sometimes shocking novel that presents an enlightening glimpse into the lives of all sections of the population in Colonial Kenya fifty years ago.
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Edition: Book Club
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company Inc
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good. No Jacket. Cover has chipping, marks, bumping, dents, edgewear, small tears, fraying-Marks on edge-Few marks on pgs-Cocked-Yellowing-Cracked binding at a few spots-Nice reading condition especially for its age. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Cloth Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Date Published: 1955
Description: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Early printing book club edition cloth hard cover in VG condition. Unmarked, clean copy. Spine slightly bowed. 566pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday and Company, Inc
Date Published: 1955
ISBN-13:9780241906125ISBN:0241906121
Description: Fair. No DJ. Binding slanted. P/O name is on FFEP. Text is clean and bright. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Description: Pocket Books, New York, 1957; Very Good; no d/j; Cardinal Giant Edition; Third Printing; Cover painting by Charles Binger; Based on actual events of the Mau Mau revolt in Africa and the basis for the MGM motion picture starring Rock Hudson and Dana Wynter. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good. No Jacket. * Good-Very Good. No Jacket Octavo(8vo), approx.8? " Hard Cover, without dust jacket, in good-very good condition, second impression July 1955. Solid, clean and tight copy, blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Spine is slightly sunned, pages are lightly yellowed, some foxing on outer edges & on endpapers. We quickly respond to requests for scanned images and promptly answer any questions, or supply further information on this title. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780671789954ISBN:0671789953
Description: Good. No Jacket. Spine Wrinkled/Slanted, Spine NOT Creased, Corners Bumped, Front Cover Corner Creased, Interior Unmarked, Good Reading Copy. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
Date Published: 1955
Description: Poor. No Jacket. Hardback. H. 8 1/2" 549pp. Previous owner name to fep. Spine cracked at fep. Corners bumped. Image is of ACTUAL BOOK on sale. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1955
Description: Very Good. 1955 Doubleday hardcover; clean text; no names or marks; NOT ex-library; front hinge webbing is showing but binding tight; illustrated by Daniel Schwartzno jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Buccaneer Books
Date Published: 1991-06-01
ISBN-13:9780899668161ISBN:089966816X
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780899668161. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Date Published: 1955
Description: Good. FRONT INNER HINGE HAS STARTED, Corners and spine ends bumped. Edges rubbed and tanned. Hardcover Internally clean. No Dust Jacket " Shipped from the UK " read more
"I was recomended this book by somebody and thought it was going to be a politically incorrect (honest) account of the communist funded Mau Mau revolution in Kenya. What it actually is, is a historical fiction account of it. I was truly blown away by this book. Even though it doesn't always portray the whites in a very good light idiots would say this book is racist because it shows the utter brutality and ignorant superstions of the blacks. These days you are only allowed to show the bad side of whites. As great as this book is I doubt that it could get published now. Personally I believe it just shows in an honest way how both the whites and blacks thought and like I said the whites aren't always portrayed in the best light either.
It was amazing how tough and self sufficent the English settlers had to be. With all due respect to them, the American settlers in the old west had nothing on these people. Their big weakness was they were greedy and had to have black servants and workers on their farms. I actually thinks its possible the British upper class who felt threatened by the self made wealth, power and strength of the settlers, may have even covertly had a hand in supporting the Mau Maus. Another interesting fact is Barack Obamas Father worked for the genocidal Jomo Kenyatta in Kenya after he returned to Kenya. This is something blacks all over the world who idolize Obama and the Mau Maus need to be aware of more than anyone because the Mau Maus of course killed many whites but they were responsible for tens if not hundreds of thousands of dead Africans."
"One of the four or five best books I've ever read. The ending was dynamite! Had a couple of the most appealing characters I've ever run across. Story of Mau-Mau in Central Africa. Wow!"
"A slice of raw South African history, definatly not for the thinskined PC reader,or faint of heart.A real look at the thoughts of two oposing cultures,the start of all wars,the predictions of the fate of south Africa aluded to in the book are all too real, and this is woven into a great story."
"Interesting book, but a bit violent, all the same, good portrayal of what was going on in Kenya post World War II, also watched the movie with a young Sydnee Poirtee (sp?) and Rock Hudson."
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