“Fresh and enjoyable… Scott does more than simply record her African adventures. She tackles the difficult issue of race, revealing a shift in white attitudes across the generations… Scott’s great strength is to remind us that southern Africa has so many different stories.” - The Independent
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"Beautifully written and lovingly told,
Scott’s book has the makings to be “Out of Africa” meets “Running With
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"[A] beautiful and loving portrait" - The Boston Globe
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"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
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"... while Scott does come in contact with some of
Southern Africa’s tragedies... this book is much more an account of an
unusual, entertaining upbringing than the more expected Africa story
written by a white author that asks the question, How do I belong here? It’s the story of an African childhood, but it’s a story that former children anywhere can relate to." - The Portland Tribune
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"Happy stories are hard to tell, but Scott
succeeds in this engaging recreation of a child's Botswana, apolitical
and Eden-like. She has no sordid revelations, no shocking
surprises—just a raconteur's talent for making any story she tells
interesting." - Publishers Weekly
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"...an amazing story and a delightful read... touching, hilarious in parts, and captivating as
it is so different than most American readers’ experience and/or
conception of childhood. This memoir provides the reader with a breath
of exotic fresh air." - Curled Up with a Good Book
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"Memoirs of childhood -- quirkier the better -- remain a staple... Robyn Scott's evocative account of growing up in Botswana qualifies
on all accounts, including quirkiness." - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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"an enchanting book... eminently readable and deceptively ambitious..." Willamette Week |
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"Most of us read for
many reasons. Escape, adventure, understanding of other cultures, but
always for a good story. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, the story of a
remarkable family, will give you all of the above and then some. I
highly recommend it." - Book Browse
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"If I had just two words allowed for this title,
they’d be “stock it”, but I’d go on to say that this is a real gem – an
excellent hand-sell title. Nobody could fail to love this story of an
eccentric childhood, so movingly and joyously described by Scott." - Publishing News |
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