The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
by Huxley, E
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1959. 288, frontis. . HB. 8vo, orig. boards, gilt title to spine. Vg in d/w (spine slightly faded, price-clipped, in removable protective sleeve).. First edition. Elspeth Huxley was a British-Kenyan author, these are the stories of her childhood on a remote coffee farm in Thika, Kenya, and her reminiscences of her neighbours, both the white settlers and the native Kikuyu peoples..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S57932
- Title
- The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
- Author
- Huxley, E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Autobiography; Kenya; East Africa; Africa
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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