The Flame Trees of Thika Memories of an African Childhood

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.

ISBN:	9780099577263
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Published date:	03 Apr 2014
DEWEY:	967.6203092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	274
Weight:	210g
Height:	193mm
Width:	181mm
Spine width:	19mm

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