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The Flame Trees of Thika

Memories of an African Childhood

by Elspeth Huxley
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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.

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  • Release date

    April 3, 2014

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781473512511
      • File size: 505 KB

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781473512511
      • File size: 505 KB

  • Languages

    • English

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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  • English

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