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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

by ElspethHuxley (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $4.36

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    Hardcover 1987

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Synopsis

In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers among the Kikuyu people, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases and discovered - the hard way - the world of the African.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 02 Jul 1998
ISBN 10: 0712666133
ISBN 13: 9780712666138
Book Overview: The extraordinary adventures of a childhood in Africa, recalled in rich and loving detail.

Media Reviews
An enchantment and a joy to read Books and Bookmen She knows East Africa and she loves it - the people, black and white, and the wild beauty of its countryside - with a critical and understanding sympathy The Times An accomplished story-teller, she weaves anecdotes, character sketches, political history together without losing her thread or the reader's momentum Sunday Times What a marvellous writer...and what a Kenya it was Financial Times
Author Bio
Elspeth Huxley was born in 1906, the daughter of Major Josceline Grant of Njoro, Kenya, where she spent most of her childhood. She was educated at the European School in Nairobi and at Reading University where she took a diploma in agriculture, and at Cornell University, USA. In 1929 she joined the Empire Marketing Board as a press officer. She married Gervas Huxley in 1931 and travelled widely with him in America, Africa and elsewhere. She was on the BBC General Advisory Council from 1952 to 1959, when she joined the Monckton Advisory Commission on Central Africa. She wrote novels, detective fiction, biography and travel titles, and her books include The Mottled Lizard (1962), The Challenge of Africa (1971), Livingstone and His African Journeys (1974), Florence Nightingale (1975), Scott of the Antartic (1977), Nellie: Letters from Africa (1980), Whipsnade: Captive Breeding for Survival (1981), The Prince Buys the Manor (1982), Last Days in Eden and Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya (1985). She died in 1997.