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

Author: Robyn Scott Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780143056935 9780143115090 014305693X 014311509X

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. Similar books: Before the Knife by Carolyn Slaughter The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley The Mottled Lizard by Elspeth Huxley Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller The Devil That Danced On the Water by Aminatta Forna Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller Out In The Midday Sun by Elspeth Huxley When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann African Nights by Kuki Gallmann All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley African Laughter by Doris Lessing In Pieces by Sally Field Little Princes by Conor Grennan Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant