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Physical description; 453 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm. Subjects; Scott, Robyn - Childhood and youth. New Zealanders - Botswana - Biography. Children of physicians - Botswana - Biography. AIDS (Disease) - Botswana. Aliens - Botswana - Biography.
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"...a fabulous read, rollicking, good-humoured and intensely sane... Scott's memoir is a worthy successor to The Flame Trees of Thika, Elspeth Huxley's bright 1959 memoir of a Kenyan childhood, or Jon and Rumer Godden's evocative and gentle memoir of a childhood on the subcontinent, Under the Indian Sun."
-- Alexandra Fuller, Globe and Mail, 7 June 2008
"If you can't get to the sun and want an uplifting experience nonetheless, Robyn Scott's Twenty Chickens for a Saddle might be just the tonic... This is the nearest thing you will get to Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals in Africa and it is just as enchanting." -- Giles Foden, Conde Nast Traveller, April 2008
"Twenty Chickens for a Saddle is such a quietly bravura performance that it is difficult to believe this is Scott's first book. The sounds, sights, scents and textures of Botswana tumble from her pages with unhurried ease, conjuring an Enid Blyton-esque adventure of a childhood and the colourful, life-filled characters it embraced."
-- Juliet Nicolson, Telegraph Review, June 7 2008.
'Beautifully written and lovingly told, Scott's book has the makings to be "Out of Africa" meets "Running with Scissors".'
-- Marcus Mabry, The Scotsman,May 24th 2008
Plenty of quirky, idyllic tales of eccentric relatives and winsome innocence.
-- The Sunday Times, May 18th, 2008
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-- Alexandra Fuller, Globe and Mail, 7 June 2008
"If you can't get to the sun and want an uplifting experience nonetheless, Robyn Scott's Twenty Chickens for a Saddle might be just the tonic... This is the nearest thing you will get to Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals in Africa and it is just as enchanting." -- Giles Foden, Conde Nast Traveller, April 2008
"Twenty Chickens for a Saddle is such a quietly bravura performance that it is difficult to believe this is Scott's first book. The sounds, sights, scents and textures of Botswana tumble from her pages with unhurried ease, conjuring an Enid Blyton-esque adventure of a childhood and the colourful, life-filled characters it embraced."
-- Juliet Nicolson, Telegraph Review, June 7 2008.
'Beautifully written and lovingly told, Scott's book has the makings to be "Out of Africa" meets "Running with Scissors".'
-- Marcus Mabry, The Scotsman,May 24th 2008
Plenty of quirky, idyllic tales of eccentric relatives and winsome innocence.
-- The Sunday Times, May 18th, 2008
When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Zealand for a converted cowshed in the wilds of Botswana. There, they set off in the pioneering and unconventional footsteps of Robyn's eccentric grandfather, who had served as pilot to Seretse Khama, Botswana's first president. Their three small children, mostly left to amuse themselves, grew up collecting snakes, canoeing with crocodiles and breaking in horses in the veld. This is the story of the family's fifteen years in Botswana, during which Linda Scott haphazardly and single-handedly homeschooled Robyn, Damien and Lulu, while Keith ran a flying doctor practice and attempted, with erratic success, to adapt to the unique demands of rural clinics and the growing burden of AIDS.Funny and unsentimental, "Twenty Chickens for a Saddle" is an account of a remarkable childhood in which dissecting a snake was the closest Robyn and her brother and sister came to a biology lesson, and children from the cattle posts were their only classmates.It also offers a unique portrait of modern Botswana, one of Africa's rare democratic success stories, against the backdrop of one of the continent's worst AIDS crises. The book remains throughout an uplifting, engaging and deeply affectionate portrayal of an extraordinary place and family.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0747595968
- ISBN 13 9780747595960
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