Vivienne de Watteville - A Writer in Kenya

Vivienne de Watteville went to Kenya to hunt big cats in 1922 during a period of intensive development of colonial hunting safaris, and during her second stay in 1928, she exchanged the rifle to a camera. Two experiences recounted in two books, "Out in the Blue" and "A Tea with Elephants - A little music on Mount Kenya" belonging to an important female colonial hunting literature in Kenya and neighboring countries at the same time, about forty works in English, difficult to find and not reissued. Based on these stories, Fran oise Lapeyre documents this universe of colonization that gives women back their status by placing them above the colonized, by delivering them, like their fathers, husbands or lovers, all the country's good and abandoning to violence without control of their weapons an extraordinary wild fauna.