Publisher's Synopsis
When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Zealand for a converted cowshed in Botswana. There they set off in the pioneering footsteps of Robyn's eccentric grandfather, who had served as pilot to Botswana's first president. Funny and unsentimental, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle is an account of a remarkable childhood in which dissecting a snake was the closest Robyn and her brother and sister came to a biology lesson, with children from the cattle posts their only classmates. While Linda Scott haphazardly home-schooled, her husband Keith ran a flying-doctor practice and attempted, with erratic success, to adapt to the unique demands of rural clinics and the growing burden of AIDS.
