Kenya (Modern Nations of the World) [Library Binding]

Laurel Corona (Author)

Book Description

Series: Modern Nations of the World | Publication Date: September 1999

Examines the land, people, history, and culture of Kenya and discusses its state of affairs and place in the world today.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Like books in Joy Hakim's History of US series, this book in the Modern Nations of the World series is occasionally livelier reading than the drab black-and-white photos and densely packed pages suggest. Corona presents an upbeat but frank picture of a country that is the seventeenth-poorest on earth, where Nairobi's skyscrapers look toward the future, and fossils in Olduvai Gorge open windows to the distant past, and where a female mayor presides only a mile away from a hut where a girl's genitals are being mutilated. The book is organized along standard assignment lines (chapter one is about the land, chapter two is about the people, and so on), but it includes evocative passages from Isak Dinesen and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, among others, and closes with a detailed, if unsourced, fact summary and annotated lists of books and Web sites. Other titles in this series are listed in the Series Roundup in this issue. John Peters

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  
• Library Binding: 127 pages
• Publisher: Lucent Books (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560065907
• ISBN-13: 978-1560065906
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,261,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am the author of PENELOPE'S DAUGHTER (Berkley Books 2010),THE FOUR SEASONS, a novel of Vivaldi's Venice (Hyperion/VOICE 2008), and FINDING EMILIE (S&S/Gallery 2011). I also wrote UNTIL OUR LAST BREATH: A HOLOCAUST STORY OF LOVE AND PARTISAN RESISTANCE (St. Martin's 2008). Please visit my website and blog at www.laurelcorona.com, and my special website for PENELOPE'S DAUGHTER, "Xanthe's World," at www.pensdaughter.blogspot.com. You can check for appearances in your area at the bottom of this page. I can be reached by e-mail at [e-mail].