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Original Title:	The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
ISBN:	0141183780 (ISBN13: 9780141183787)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Elspeth Huxley's Childhood Memoirs #1

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Elspeth Huxley's Childhood Memoirs #1) Paperback | Pages: 281 pages

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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 damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discovered—the hard way—the world of the African. With an extraordinary gift for detail and a keen sense of humor, Huxley recalls her childhood on the small farm at a time when Europeans waged their fortunes on a land that was as harsh as it was beautiful. For a young girl, it was a time of adventure and freedom, and Huxley paints an unforgettable portrait of growing up among the Masai and Kikuyu people, discovering both the beauty and the terrors of the jungle, and enduring the rugged realities of the pioneer life.

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Title	:	The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Elspeth Huxley's Childhood Memoirs #1)
Author	:	Elspeth Huxley
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 281 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2000 by Penguin Classics (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Cultural. Africa. Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Eastern Africa. Kenya

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I'm not entirely sure what to make of this one, which has been on my to-read list for years and years. Huxley was young in the events of The Flame Trees of Thika: between six and eight, though her family later returned to Kenya, so this was not the real end of her time there. But Huxley does not write of a child's adventures and experiences. Her focus is much more on the dramas of the adults around her. This makes sense, perhaps; from the sounds of things, her life in Kenya didn't involve many

I had been searching for this book for a few years after reading an article about the author-she lived a full and adventurous life. It had also mentioned her childhood in Africa and I have been drawn to stories of Africa since reading the book West With the Night years ago. Well at last I found the book at a reasonable price and settled down to enjoy. The writing style was strange-it was sort of written in the first person but not always. She seemed to mostly refer to her parents by their first

Ever get to the end of a book and contemplate flipping back to the first page and starting all over again? This is a book whose world I just want to continue living in but, like the ending of a book, is a world that just doesn't exist anymore. So much of the book, though it deals with people trying to start a new frontier life in Africa, is really about the ending of things, specifically the end of old Europe with the onset of World War 1.Elspeth, in the last chapter, writes about how she

*Special Content only on my blog, Strange and Random Happenstance during Ashford April (April 2013).In the late twenties, Kenya became known for it's "Happy Valley." A place of paradise and pleasure, where you could start your life over a make a fortune in coffee or dairy. But to those who settled there before the first world war, it was an entirely different world. In 1913 Elspeth Huxley's family moved to Thika to start a coffee plantation. They had heard there where fortunes to be made... only

Firstly: the only horse in this book seems to be on the front cover. That's why I bought it, but it's not a horse book in the slightest.This autobiography tells the story of 6 year old Elspeth and her early years in Africa before World War 1. Her parents (who she calls by name) travel to Thika where they begin a farm by utilising locals for labour. The story is very slow, and it took me a long time to get into it, but once I did I loved it. It's descriptive about the things around her, and

I spent some time in Kenya in 1996, when I was just a teen, on a mission trip with my church. We spent most of our time in a tiny village called Kibwezi without electricity (but we had running water!), and we lived in tents for a month while we helped out at the polytechnic we sponsored and helped build new classrooms from native brick. It's one of my most cherished memories, and so I love to read books on Kenya throughout its history.I absolutely wanted to love this book. I don't know whether

In 1913, when the author was six years old, she and her mother and father went to British East Africa (B.E.A.) to start a coffee plantation. This was nearly 100 years ago, when that area was mostly unsettled. Her father bought some property, sight unseen, in the middle of nowhere among the Kikuyu people. This book was especially fascinating for me because everything was so incredibly different from modern times. The story is very simply told from her very early memories, although I suspect she