This book was a great success. It was twice reprinted before the outbreak of the second world war interrupted its career; in 1999 it was issued in Penguin
's Twentieth Century World Classics series. EH
Material Conditions of Writing
Elspeth Huxley
In about 1935 EH
began to plan a book purely about the Africans, which would be in large part an argument against the anti-colonial views of Margery Perham
.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
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She planned it in the...
Textual Features
Bryony Lavery
Origin of the Species features two characters: Molly Starkie, an archaeologist, a middle-aged denizen of present-day Yorkshire (where the action is set), and Victoria, a prehistoric forebear four million years old, whom Molly has dug...
Timeline
17 July 1959: While her husband Louis was in bed with the...
National or international item
17 July 1959
While her husband Louis
was in bed with the flu, Mary Leakey
discovered the 1.75-million-year-old skull of australopithicus boisei, better known as Nutcracker Man, in Olduvai (or properly Oldubai) Gorge, Tanzania.
