How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
The geographical position, and the height of the land combined to create a landscape that had not its like in all the world. (1.1.2)
The Baroness comes out swinging with some heavy-handed claims that the Ngong Hills are like no other place in the world. Maybe she needs to insist on the uniqueness of her home in order to justify writing a whole book about it; or maybe it really is that special.
Quote #2
In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be. (1.1.3)
There is something about Kenya that makes the Baroness feel right at home, even though her real home is far, far away in Denmark. She tries to convince the reader that it's the air, the altitude, something geographical. Are you buying it?
Quote #3
In my day, the Buffalo, the Eland and the Rhino lived in the Ngong Hills—the very old Natives remembered a time when there were Elephants there—and I was always sorry that the whole Ngong Mountain was not enclosed in the Game Reserve. (1.1.9)
First of all, we just gotta say that we really dig the whole capitalizing of the animals' names. It gives a sort of a storybook quality to the whole idea of the Ngong Hills. Second of all, the idea of closing off the whole place in a Game Reserve is kind of like what this book is trying to do—preserve a piece of Africa that is disappearing or already gone.