Huxley, Elspeth – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:30:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Huxley, Elspeth – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Flame Trees Of Thika https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/flame-trees-of-thika/ Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/flame-trees-of-thika/ 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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