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The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

By (author) Elspeth Huxley

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When Elspeth Huxleyâ€™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. Huxleyâ€™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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Publisher | Vintage Publishing
Published date | 3 Apr 2014
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 288
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 19mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 212g
ISBN | 978-0-0995-7726-3
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / general

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Broken Country: AMAZON'S BOOK OF THE YEAR - THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

Clare Leslie Hall
Paperback / softback
320 pages

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An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?

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Theory & Practice

Michelle de Kretser
Hardback
192 pages
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The Correspondent

Virginia Evans
Hardback
288 pages
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Exiles: Times book of the month 'Stanley Kubrick meets MR James'

Mason Coile
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224 pages
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A terrifying locked-room mystery set in a remote outpost on Mars.

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