Huxley's beautifully written, enchantingly evocative and poignant memoir about her childhood years living in Kenya, 1912-1914 with her parents.
Not my favorite book about Africa. I wanted (unfairly) this book to be Out of Africa, which is one of my favorites, but I felt like this book was less about Africa as a continent and more about Europeans in Africa who don't really want to be there. It took me several chapters to figure out the two ...
video blurb - When a young Edwardian family leaves the shores of England to build a home in the wilderness of East Africa, what they encounter is beyond their imagination, but forever remembered by their 11-year-old daughter.Based on the beloved memoir by Elspeth Huxley, THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA bri...
Really lovely. She was able to capture her childhood recollections and express them without much adult overlay. Just very straightforward, as a child would be.
I had to get this through interlibrary loan, and I'm really glad I went to the trouble. This is the follow-up to The Flame Trees of Thika. The book covers the author's life from age twelve through age eighteen. After WWI, the author and her family were able to return to their coffee plantation in ...
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