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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- Publication Date:
- 03/04/2014
- Authors:
- Huxley, Elspeth
- Year Published:
- 2014
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780099577263
- Number of Pages:
- 288
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Publication Date:
- 03/04/2014
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780099577263