White Man’s Country Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya. Volume 1 1870-1914 & Volume 2 1914-1931

White Mans Country Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya. Volume 1 1870-1914 & Volume 2 1914-1931 

Author: Edith Huxley  

Publisher: Chatto & Windus   

Edition: 1956 Reprints 

Language: English 

Condition: Good. Clean copies with tight binding. Scattered foxing.  

Binding: Hardcovers. No dustjackets. Cover boards covered in adhesive plastic.  

Pages: Volume 1: 315. Print with images & 2 foldout maps. Volume 2: 333. Print with images & 3 maps 2 of which are foldouts  

Additional Information

Lord Delamere was undoubtedly the most central figure in the development of Kenya Colony.

Lord Delamere moved to Kenya in 1901 and acquired vast land holdings from the British Crown. Over the years, he became the unofficial 'leader' of the colony's European community. He was as famous for his tireless labours to establish a working agricultural economy in East Africa as he was for childish antics among his European friends when he was at his leisure.

Among Kenya's white settlers, Lord Delamere was famous for his utter devotion to developing Kenyan agriculture. For many years his only homes in Kenya were native-style mud and grass huts, which his wife (who was Ulster Anglo-Irish) decorated with their fine English and Irish furnishings. For twenty years, Delamere farmed his colossal land by trial, error and dogged effort, experimenting endlessly with crops and livestock, and accruing an invaluable stockpile of knowledge that would later serve as the foundation for the agricultural economy of the colony. 

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