Description
| Product ID: | 9780099577263 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Flame Trees Of Thika |
| Subtitle: | Memories of an African Childhood |
| Authors: | Author: Elspeth Huxley |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, Autobiography: general, Biography and non-fiction prose, Travel writing, Autobiography: general, Prose: non-fiction, Travel writing, Africa, Kenya |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-04-03 |
