β Nicholas Drayson; Nicholas Drayson
π Fiction
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2008;2012
π Penguin Group UK;Viking
π en-GB
β 184 KB
π 1 views
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A Guide to the Birds of East Africa
β Scribed by Nicholas Drayson
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt;Penguin Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 667 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0241955289
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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. Malik has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, a woman who leads the weekly bird walks sponsored by the East African Ornithological Society. Reserved and honorable, Malik wouldn't be noticed by a bystander in a Nairobi streetβexcept perhaps to comment on his carefully sculpted combover. But beneath that unprepossessing exterior lies a warm heart and a secret passion.
But just as Malik is getting up the nerve to invite Rose to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball (the premier social occasion of the Kenyan calendar), who should pop up but his nemesis from his school days. The jokester Harry Khan, good-looking in a flashy way and quick of foot, has also become enraptured with the object of Malik's affection.
So begins the competition cooked up by fellow members of the Asadi...
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