Elspeth Huxley

In an open cart, Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask cloth spread over packing cases, and discovered--the hard way--the world of the African. This book recounts Huxley's childhood on the small farm at a time when Europeans waged their fortunes on a land that was as harsh as it was beautiful. For a young girl, it was a time of adventure and freedom, and the author paints an unforgettable portrait of growing up among the Masai and Kikuyu people, discovering both the beauty and the terrors of the jungle, and enduring the rugged realities of the pioneer life.

Memories of an African Childhood

The Flame Trees of Thika

The Mottled Lizard

Safaris can be dangerous business, but when Lady Baradale insists on bringing her priceless jewelry on the expedition, she--and her gems--become the prey. Set against the African landscapes of 1930s Kenya.

Murder on Safari

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

This title provides the classic account of one woman's epic and eccentric journey up the Congo at the end of the 19th century.

Travels in West Africa

Englishman's obsession for revenge softens when he falls in love with the daughter of his enemy.

A Novel

A Man from Nowhere

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On the Edge of the Rift Memories of Kenya

Travel accounts of Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast (Ghana), Nigeria.

A Journey Through West Africa

Four Guineas

Flame Trees of Thika Counter Display

From the author of The Flame Trees of Thika comes the intriguing biography of Peter Scott, the "father of conservation", and cofounder of the World Wildlife Fund. Behiind Scott's charm and single-minded devotopn to his chosen causes Huxley reveals a complex character. Illustrations.

Peter Scott, Painter and Naturalist

African Dilemmas

Painter and Naturalist

Peter Scott

"I didn't choose Oaksey, it chose me" say Elspeth Huxley in the preface to her evocative diary of life in a small Wiltshire village. She had lived there for thirty-five years, taking part in village affairs and events, and during one year; April 1974 to March 1975, kept a diary of village life. Despite the way in which old ways and skills were disappearing, Elspeth Huxley captures the essential role of village life in English society.

A Wiltshire Diary

Gallipot Eyes

Margery Perham

A Correspondence Between Elspeth Huxley and Margery Perham ; with an Introd. by Lord Lugard

Race and Politics in Kenya

Set in a farming community in 1930s colonial East Africa.

The African Poison Murders

A delegation of eight men and women is sent to the African protectorate of Hapana to advise on its independence, dealing with Communist infiltration and questions like if tapioca is detrimental to virility. But with the death of one of the members, the comedy becomes sinister.

The Incident at the Merry Hippo

In this marvelous anthology, Elspeth Huxley, our best and most popular writer on Africa, has drawn on her unparalleled knowledge of Kenya and its literature to present a fully rounded portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world. In nine sections focusing on exploration, travel, settlement, war, hunting, wildlife, environment, life-styles, and legend and poetry, using only first-hand accounts, she guides the reader through the story of Kenya from AD100 to the present with her characteristic candour and directness.

Nine Faces Of Kenya

Huxley

Olivia Brandeis, a young anthropologist, could sense that trouble was brewing at Government House in the African colony of Chania. Eventually her suspicions are confirmed when the Governor, Sir Malcolm Macleod, is found strangled at his desk. And when the identity of the murderer is indicated, a terrifying series of vicious events ensues.

Murder at Government House

Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, the brothers Matu and Muthegi are raised according to customs that, they are told, have existed since the beginning of the world. But when the 'red' strangers come, sunburned Europeans who seek to colonize their homeland, the lives of the two Kikuyu tribesmen begin to change in dramatic new ways. Soon, their people are overwhelmed by unknown diseases that traditional magic seems powerless to control. And as the strangers move across the land, the tribe rapidly finds itself forced to obey foreign laws that seem at best bizarre, and that at worst entirely contradict the Kikuyu's own ancient ways, rituals and beliefs.

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