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Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley
Category: unmapped
Red Strangers tells of the coming of the British (the Red Strangers) to East Africa in the late 1800s. Following the lives of three generations of a Kikuyu family, Huxley's magical tale immerses the reader in the language, world view and perceptions of a people whose way of life is changed forever throu ...Show more
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
Category: Biography Memoir
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 an extraordinary gift for detail and a keen sense of hu ...Show more
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
Category: Biography
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 ho ...Show more
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