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.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099577263
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 202 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm
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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