Binding: Hardback 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Publisher: McGraw Hill, New York
Date Published: 1962
Description: VG, corners/spine ends a little worn, endpapers sl browned, DJ VG-556pp. DJ clipped, spine ends/corners worn some, nice & bright, 8 tiny tears on the back edge. tape marks on the back free endpaper, read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Magraw-Hill, N.Y.
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good. Ex-library book with all of the usual markings. Hardcover with spine and pages intact. Covers and edging show wear and pages are beginning to tan as is edging. read more
Description: CLEAN SOUND GOOD CONDITION-NO DUST JACKET- Owner's name on fixed end paper-No other writing or marks in book-If you REQUEST A SCAN from me I will send you one. McGraw-Hill (1962) Later printing-Light crease on spine- read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The dj is sunned on the spine, chipped and bumped. Pages are clean with no markings. Picture of author on back cover. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York
Date Published: 1962
Description: Good with no dust jacket. Black cloth with boards little rubbed at edges, half-inch tear at head of spine. Pages age-toned, else interior in very good condition, clean and tight.; 8vo. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (1962) 2nd pr. -
Description: GOOD READING COPY-No Dust Jacket-Hard Cover- Book-of-the-Month Club mark on back cover-Owner's name on front fixed end paper-Otherwise no writing or marks in book- "First Edition, Second Printing" noted on copyright page-1962-no other dates-Sound Clean Copy- read more
"My dad handed me this book when I was a freshman in high school and told me to read it. I did. It was fascinating, terrifying, you name it. Great book."
"I started off thinking, "I like his other book, Something of Value, a lot better." That book began in the childhood of two men raised almost as brothers, so you're more gently introduced to colonial Africa before the story slides you into a more cynical Mau Mau situation.
Uhuru, on the other hand, begins ten years after all the worst Mau Mau stuff, so you start off in the cynical mode, and you don't get that young golden ideal feeling when you first read about a time and place.
Then this book seems to slide even further into a morass, and it gets a little hard to read, knowing that this is all based on truth, on real events. You start feeling awful about the nature of man.
Beautiful writing, though. You could drop yourself in the middle of a Ruark book and marvel at whatever paragraph you happened to land upon.
And in the end, you find redemption. Ruark has gone the other way -- starting with cynicism and ending with hope. It wrapped the book up really nicely for me, as well as it wrapped up that bit of history.
"Great fiction work around the time of Kenyan independence. Anyone interested in Kenyan history, or the time of Independence in any African countries would like this."
"It's an African colonial classic in my mind. Fiction but it may as well be a true story the way it is told has a very realistic feel to it. It is quite long and hard to get into initially but once you do it's hard to stop. If not for the initial dense-ness I would have rated it even higher."
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