Cover art for The Flame Trees Of Thika
Published
Vintage Classics, June 2014
ISBN
9780099577263
Format
Softcover, 288 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.8cm

The Flame Trees Of Thika Memories of an African Childhood by

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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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