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Books : The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)


 : The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.91209
EAN: 9780141183787
ISBN: 0141183780
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: February 01, 2000
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date: January 31, 2000
Studio: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 69817




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New editions of Elspeth Huxley's stirring account of her childhood in Kenya and her novel of the destructive forces of colonization.

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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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Flame Trees of Thika
Having watched the DVDs of The Flame Trees of Thika several times, I was delighted to see the reissue of Elspeth Huxley's book of the same title. This is a unique case of both the book and the movie being about equal. Knowing the story from the movie in no way detracts from reading the book. Huxley's devotion to the land and people of Kenya shines through her descriptions of encounters with both. A semi-biographical account, it not only gives the reader insight into the colonial thinking of the times, ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Nostalgia for Happy Valley
This is by now a revered classic of a young girl's childhood in the Kenyan countryside under British rule. One reads this and instantly identifies with the colonial family. It's a kind of Swiss Family Robinson story about that magical time in Kenya and thereabouts before World War I when the world seemed to be at the feet of the British King and all globes glowed pink under the Empire. Were people ever so free and happy as the colonialists in Africa who instantly had countless servants, nearly free land, ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
The Flame Trees of Thika is a wonderfully written book giving the reader a glimpse of what it must have been like to grow up in Colonial Africa. It is an experience most of us will only have through reading and can only be compared to what it must have been to be one of the early settlers on the American Frontier.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Love this Author
I loved this book. It is beautifully written and is a gripping story on growing up in Africa.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Truly A Classic
In 1913, a little English girl named Elspeth relocated with her family from their native country to begin a coffee plantation in the wilds of Kenya. Similar in a way to Laura Ingall Wilder's adventurous and sentimental "take" on what was surely a very difficult experience for her family, Elspeth remembers Kenya as a wonderful place and tells us with lingering excitement of her experiences there in the short time before the First World War changed nearly everything. A delightful memoir that is a pleasure every ... Read More



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     Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.91209
EAN: 9780141183787
ISBN: 0141183780
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: February 01, 2000
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Release Date: January 31, 2000
Studio: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 69817
  
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