The Sorcerer's Apprentice Part 1 of 2 Author:Elspeth Huxley Part One Of Two Parts Elspeth Huxley describes her mission in writing THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE: "I remember once, reading a book...being struck by the remark that describing a country is like trying to draw a galloping horse; long before you have depicted your object, it has moved on." "In these pages I have tried to do more than take a pictu... more »re of a galloping horse. This is what East Africa looked like to a single traveler, between February and June, 1947. Before the picture appears, the horse will have galloped on, but if the snapshot catches it at the moment of the shutter's release, it will have done all that it set out to do." Huxley's visit to Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Uganda is the raw material of this book. Her unique narrative successfully captures an Africa in transition, from colonial to third world.« less