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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 house, employing local Kikuyu tribe members and painstakingly transforming their patch of wilderness into a working farm. Huxley’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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"An enchantment and a joy to read" (Books and Bookmen)
"She knows East Africa and she loves it - the people, black and white, and the wild beauty of its countryside - with a critical and understanding sympathy" (The Times)
"An accomplished story-teller, she weaves anecdotes, character sketches, political history together without losing her thread or the reader's momentum" (Sunday Times)
"What a marvellous writer...and what a Kenya it was" (Financial Times)
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"She knows East Africa and she loves it - the people, black and white, and the wild beauty of its countryside - with a critical and understanding sympathy" (The Times)
"An accomplished story-teller, she weaves anecdotes, character sketches, political history together without losing her thread or the reader's momentum" (Sunday Times)
"What a marvellous writer...and what a Kenya it was" (Financial Times)
The extraordinary adventures of a childhood in Africa, recalled in rich and loving detail.
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- PublisherSlightly Foxed: The Real Reader's Quarterly
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1906562393
- ISBN 13 9781906562397
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages360
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