The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley

Elspeth Huxley's Childhood Memoirs #1

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

Elspeth Huxley

288 pages paperback 1959

8 editions

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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The extraordinary adventures of a childhood in Africa, recalled in rich and loving detail. In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers among the Kikuyu people, they built a house of g...

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