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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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The Flame Trees Of Thika, Elspeth Huxley
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1966
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- Titel
- The Flame Trees Of Thika
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Elspeth Huxley
- Uitgever
- Pyramid Books
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1966
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Tags
- Non-fictie, Historisch thema, Geschiedenis, Waargebeurde verhalen, Biographies, Autobiografie en memoires, Afrika, Kenia
- Beoordeling
- 3,9 van 5
- Aantekening
- 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.