In this brilliant, hilarious memoir, Robyn Scott recounts the years living in Botswana while her dad works as a flying doctor. At first she thinks her parents don't have the best ideas, but soon she begins to realize the importance of her father's work. Botswana has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world, but still no one wants to talk about it and, for once, Scott is proud that her parents are willing to be unconventional.

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story Of An African Childhood

Scott, Robyn

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Canada

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

An exquisitely rendered portrait of an African childhood from an astonishing new talent When Robyn Scott 's parents decide to uproot their young family from New Zealand and move to a converted cowshed in rural Botswana, life for six-year-old Robyn changed forever. In this wild and new landscape excitement can be found around every corner, and with each misadventure she and her family learn more about the quirks, charms, and challenges of living in one of Africa's most remarkable and beautiful countries as it stands on the brink of an epidemic. When AIDS rears its head, the Scotts witness the early appearances of a disease that will devastate this peaceful and prosperous country. Told with clear-eyed unsentimental affection, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle is about a family's enthusiasm for each other and the world around them, with the essence of Africa infusing every page.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Penguin Publishing Group

A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs.

Memoirs

Penguin Audio

Twenty Chickens For A Saddle - The Story Of An African Childhood

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Twenty Chickens For A Saddle

Documents the author's adventures of growing up in Botswana with her loving and eccentric family, an upbringing marked by her doctor father's yearnings to be a vet, her holistic and home-schooling mother, and the apartheid mind-set embraced by their white neighbors. 40,000 first printing.

Penguin Press HC, The

A glorious new voice on Africa, Robyn Scott's adventures growing up in Botswana in a loving but eccentric family will be one of the season's most talked-about memoirs.

Jonathan Ball Publishers

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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story Of An African Childhood

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

Twenty Chickens For A Saddle - The Story Of An African Childhood

Twenty Chickens For A Saddle

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood