Travel to Kenya

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

Format: Paperback
Author: Elspeth Huxley
ReleaseDate: 31 January, 2000
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
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. 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.

Love this Author
It is beautifully written and is a gripping story on growing up in Africa. I loved this book.

Truly A Classic
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. 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. A delightful memoir that is a pleasure every time it's read.

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