The Kenya Pioneers by Errol Trzebinski

A deeply engrossing portrait of what life physically felt like. . . . [An] intimate picture. . .of early Kenya.   Times Literary Supplement

Drawing on interviews, diaries, and letters, The Kenya Pioneers tells the story of the European colonization of the Kenya Highlands in the early twentieth century and the stories of European settlers who arrived in East Africa between 1896 and 1920, describes their life there, and examines the impact of colonization on the natives.

Heinemann , 1986, hardcover, illustrated, index, 240 pages, ex-library with usual stamps & labels, otherewise condition: very good.

The authoress, Errol Trzebinski, is a British writer of books on the Happy Valley set of colonial Kenya. Her book Silence Will Speak was a source for the script of the 1985 Hollywood movie Out of Africa. Her late husband Sbish Trzebinski appears as a drunkard in the film and is slapped by Meryl Streep when he insults her. Errol cast doubt on the authorship of West with the Night, claiming Beryl Markham's third husband Raoul C. Schumacher was the ghost writer.

She lives and works in Lamu Island, Kenya.Her son is the painter Tonio Trzebinski, who was murdered in Kenya in 2001.