A Guide to the Birds of East Africa

by Nicholas Drayson

Book Overview

A beguiling novel that does for contemporary Kenya and its 1,000 species of birds what Alexander McCall Smith's Ladies Detective series does for Botswana For the past three years, the widower Mr.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547152582
• ISBN13: 9780547152585
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Charming

This is a lovely, charming story in which nothing much happens -- certainly nothing very serious. I enjoyed reading its 200 pages and was sorry when it was over.

Book purchased

product received was as advertised, and in great condition. Would buy from this vendor again.

Makes me want to go watch some birds

How to describe this book? Is it about life in Kenya, about birdwatching, about an enchanting romance, a mystery? Yes, all of those. The characters are distinct and fully fleshed-out -- and wonderfully memorable. I was sorry to finish it.

Having been to Africa

I had just returned from volunteering in Tanzania, the country on the southern border of Kenya which is the setting of this book. By chance I chose A Guide to the Birds of East Africa from the "new fiction" shelf at my local library . What a delight! So much of the background rings true to my experience. The insight into East African culture is rewarding and helped me put my recent experience in perspective. But the most fun of all is the story with its charmingly flawed characters and accounts of birding woven together to tell a tale of modern Africa.

This is a charmer

I picked this book up at the library by chance and now it will be a Christmas gift for many friends, it is simply wonderful. A charming story about "average" people who may not be so very average. I loved it.