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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life onher plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the countryand the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: ofher guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visitedher: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors–lions, rhinos,elephants, zebras, buffaloes–and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live withher, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.

The Random House colophon made its debutin February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called “Announcement Number One.”Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company’s founders, had acquired the ModernLibrary from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friendthe illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, “Rockwellwas sitting at my desk facing Donald, and we were talking about doing a few bookson the side, when suddenly I got an inspiration and said, ‘I’ve got the name forour publishing house. We just said we were go-ing to publish a few books on the sideat random. Let’s call it Random House.’ Donald liked the idea, and Rockwell Kentsaid, ‘That’s a great name. I’ll draw your trademark.’ So, sitting at my desk, hetook a piece of paper and in five minutes drew Random House, which has been our colophonever since.” Throughout the years, the mission of Random House has remained consistent:to publish books of the highest quality, at random. We are proud to continue thistradition today.

This edition is set from the first Americanedition of 1937 andcommemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House.