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Elspeth Huxley
Flame Trees Of Thika [EPUB ebook]
Memories of an African Childhood

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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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781473512511 ● Publisher Random House ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3111147 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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