A Pitted Road Chapter 2 Summary
Chapter One: A Tented Camp, Floriculture and a visit to Elsamere.
A washboard dirt road skims the outline of Lake Naivasha as we make our way to a safari camp about a half-hour?s drive from the town of Naivasha. En route we pass the flower farms owned by mostly South African and Dutch consortiums; staked out along the sizable lake?s edge these purported farms have replaced some of the colonial homes that at the turn of the 20th century made Naivasha infamous, at least in England. Instead of the campy rambling stone homes of the early British settlers, crude wooden shanties line the pitted road, and some of the workers stop us as we drive by the last of the shanty villages. A crowd gathers around the car. ?Mzungu, give me money,? a twiglike man says as he slams his fist on the hood of our Land Rover.
With me is my friend, Peggy, a documentary film maker whom I met when she was working on a project about the Civil War. At the request of the producer, Ken Burns, pint-sized, golden-haired Peggy hand-carried a life-size cutout of President Abraham Lincoln on an Amtrak train from New York City to Washington, D.C. The cardboard Lincoln was a stand-in for one of the scenes to be filmed in Washington. Before …show more content…
We watch a video on the life of Adamson, who with her third husband, George, was famous for successfully releasing domesticated lions back into the wild. ?Born Free,? her book published in 1961, tells the story of the lioness Elsa. Thanks to the popularity of the book and a film of the same name, Adamson spent the rest of her life living well while raising money for her various conservations projects. Yet, her story does not have a happy ending. In 1980, just a few weeks shy of her 70th birthday, she was murdered by a former employee. ?She was a very hot-tempered boss,? he later said. ?I killed her after she shot me in the foot for complaining about not being
A washboard dirt road skims the outline of Lake Naivasha as we make our way to a safari camp about a half-hour?s drive from the town of Naivasha. En route we pass the flower farms owned by mostly South African and Dutch consortiums; staked out along the sizable lake?s edge these purported farms have replaced some of the colonial homes that at the turn of the 20th century made Naivasha infamous, at least in England. Instead of the campy rambling stone homes of the early British settlers, crude wooden shanties line the pitted road, and some of the workers stop us as we drive by the last of the shanty villages. A crowd gathers around the car. ?Mzungu, give me money,? a twiglike man says as he slams his fist on the hood of our Land Rover.
With me is my friend, Peggy, a documentary film maker whom I met when she was working on a project about the Civil War. At the request of the producer, Ken Burns, pint-sized, golden-haired Peggy hand-carried a life-size cutout of President Abraham Lincoln on an Amtrak train from New York City to Washington, D.C. The cardboard Lincoln was a stand-in for one of the scenes to be filmed in Washington. Before …show more content…
We watch a video on the life of Adamson, who with her third husband, George, was famous for successfully releasing domesticated lions back into the wild. ?Born Free,? her book published in 1961, tells the story of the lioness Elsa. Thanks to the popularity of the book and a film of the same name, Adamson spent the rest of her life living well while raising money for her various conservations projects. Yet, her story does not have a happy ending. In 1980, just a few weeks shy of her 70th birthday, she was murdered by a former employee. ?She was a very hot-tempered boss,? he later said. ?I killed her after she shot me in the foot for complaining about not being