The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

Elspeth Huxley's Childhood Memoirs #1

Elspeth Huxley

318 pages first pub 1959 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discovered—the hard way—the world of the African. With ...

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