The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood, Paperback - Elspeth Huxley

Reducere. 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...

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 Ken...

In this sequel to The Flame of Thika, Elspeth Huxley takes up her story after the family returns to Kenya after the First World War. ' The Times 'W...

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AN ELFIN BOOK OF TREES FOR THE ELVEN DRUID can be used as an oracle and is in a sense a way of listening to the trees. It is not the same as being ...