Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

Robyn Scott
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Documents the author's adventures of growing up in Botswana with her loving and eccentric family, an upbringing marked by her doctor father's yearnings to be a vet, her holistic and home-schooling mother, and the apartheid mind-set embraced by their white neighbors. 40,000 first printing.
Genres: AfricaMemoirNonfictionBiographyBotswanaBook ClubTravelBiography MemoirAutobiographyZimbabwe
464 Pages

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