A guide to the birds of East Africa : a novel
/ Nicholas Drayson.
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. , 2008.
- 201 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
A beguiling novel of contemporary Kenya and its 1,000 species of birds. For the past three years, the widower Mr. Malik has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, a woman who leads the weekly bird walks sponsored by the East African Ornithological Society.