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THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA

Author: Elspeth Huxley
SKU: 9780099577263

Kshs 1,950.00

When Elspeth Huxley’s pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they make up for in determination: building a grass house, employing local Kikuyu tribe members and painstakingly transforming their patch of wilderness into a working farm. Huxley’s unforgettable childhood memoir is a sensitive account of settler life at the turn of the twentieth century and a love song to the harshness and beauty of East Africa.

 

Format: Paperback / softback 288 pages

Classifications: Classifications:

Africa, Kenya, Biography: general, Autobiography: general, Prose: non-fiction, Travel writing

ISBN : 9780099577263

Published : N/A

Author : Elspeth Huxley

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Vintage Publishing

Size : 193 x 181 x 19 (mm)

Weight : 208g

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