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War cry : a Courtney family novel

Summary: With his headstrong daughter Saffron pursuing her education in London at Oxford, Leon Courtney navigates the politics of colonial Kenya.

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  • ISBN: 9780062276490
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    496 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
Subject: Courtney family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction
British -- Africa, East -- Fiction
Hunting guides -- Fiction
Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 -- Fiction
Oxford (England) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Spy fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Alert Bay Public Library.

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Summary: With his headstrong daughter Saffron pursuing her education in London at Oxford, Leon Courtney navigates the politics of colonial Kenya.
Leon Courtney attempts to navigate the murky political waters of 1920s Africa, while his daughter Saffron grows into a headstrong woman headed to Oxford University. In the pre-World War II decades, father and daughter must survive adventurers, spies and traitors.

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