This Was the Old Chief's Country Volume One of Doris Lessing's Collected African Stories Year First Published: 1973 First Published by: Michael Joseph Category: Short Stories This Edition: British first edition (reissue of African Stories) published March 1973 second impression August 1973 click on image for larger version

From the book cover: All Doris Lessing's short novels and stories are now collected into two volumes, This Was The Old Chef's Country and The Sun Between Their Feet. This volume contains all the stories from the original book entitled This Was The Old Chief's Country and three of the short novels from Five, the book which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1954. 'I believe,' writes Doris Lessing, "that the chief gift from Africa to writers, white and black, is the continent itself, its presence which for some people is like a old fever, latent always in their blood; or it like an old wounded throbbing in the bones as the air changes. That is not a place to visit unless one chooses to be an exile ever afterwards from an inexplicable majestic silence lying just over the border of memory or of thought. Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.' In this Edition: The Old Chief Mshlanga A Sunrise on the Veld No Witchcraft for Sale The Second Hut The Nuisance The De Wets Come to Kloof Grange Little Tembi Old John's Place 'Leopard' George Winter in July A Home for the Highland Cattle Eldorado The Antheap Includes the Preface for the 1964 Collection and a new Preface for the 1973 Collection. All of these stories appeared in African Stories, 1963. Also see: The Sun Between Their Feet: Volume Two of Doris Lessing's Collected African Stories O T H E R . E D I T I O N S Triad Grafton British paperback reprint Published 1979, reprinted 1986 ISBN: 0-586-4602-x Flamingo (HarperCollins) British softcover reprint Published March 1992 ISBN: 0586091130 Flamingo (HarperCollins) British softcover reprint Published October, 1994 later printing ISBN: 0586091130 Includes a new, previously uncollected story. Flamingo (HarperCollins) British hardcover reissue Published March 6, 2000 ISBN: 000225705X Includes a new, previously uncollected story.