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

The Flame Trees of Thika – Memories of an African Childhood – Elspeth Huxley

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A 1982 edition published by Chatto & Windus, London. Octavo, 288 pages. Very good condition.

An African classic, Elspeth Huxley’s memories of making a home in the Kenya wilderness, the witchcraft of the Kikuyu and the love affairs of white neighbours.

Off to Africa just before WWI, Huxley and her parents trekked out to make a home in the Kenyan wilderness. The built a grass house and are off packing cases. They taught themselves how to work ox, grow coffee etc. Their expatriate neighbours included a Scotish nurse and her absentee elephant poacher husband, a tough Boer farmer, the vivacious and unconventional Lettice an her ex-cavalry husband ... ant-hordes, leopard hunts, cattle thefts keep it all moving at a pace.

Elspeth Huxley – the book that made her name – Africa told as it was.

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The Flame Trees of Thika – Memories of an African Childhood – Elspeth Huxley

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