Author: Elspeth Huxley

Brand: Vintage Classics

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 13-05-2014

Part Number: 9780099577263

Details: 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.

EAN: 9780099577263

Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English