# The Flame Trees Of Thika

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- Authors: [Elspeth Huxley](https://www.bookquiver.com/elspeth-huxley)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9957-726-3
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2014-04-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.