Biographies & Memoirs / Autobiography / African Saga by Mirella Ricciardi

• Book Title: African Saga
• Author: Mirella Ricciardi
• ISBN: 0002161915
• Publisher: Colloins
• Year Published: March, 1982
• Our Price: £24.20 GBP ($47.43 USD)
• Description: Collins 1982: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 6.5 x 9.5 inches tall: 299 pages: Black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis an autobiographical story of Africa written by Mirella Ricciardi , the internationally famous photographer. This family saga begins in 1929 when the author's father, an Italian wartime fighter pilot, and mother, a French sculptress, built themselves an art deco palazzo on the shores of Lake Naivasha in in Kenya. The author describes her idyllic childhood, her father's imprisonment and deportation, her brothers battle against the Mau Mau , her marriage to an Italian adventurer, the birth of her children, and the demise of her parents and the Africa she knew as a child. Evocative photographs support the text. Condition very clean and good overall.
• Condition: Collectable- Very Good
• Dustcover: Yes
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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