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1	The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood more books like this by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley When her family set off to extend Britain's colonial settlements in Kenya to Thika, the author of this memoir was just a child, riding along in their cart. Her book recollects life growing up on her family's struggling farm, adventures in the jungle, and encounters with her family's Masai and Kikuyu neighbors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.25! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Mottled Lizard more books like this by Huxley see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	African Poison Murders more books like this by Elspeth Huxley It all begins with gruesome pranks--decapitated pigeons, a mutilated dog. But soon tensions between German and English settlers in 1930s colonial Africa reach the breaking point, and a German farmer, suspected of Nazi sympathies, turns up dead. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $61.43! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Flame Trees of Thika more books like this by Huxley see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.86! \| first editions
5	Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya more books like this by Elspeth Huxley Huxley has recorded her memories of the years after The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard. Readers learn about her return to Kenya after eight years, the people and places she found, and about her visit in 1983. 8-page photo insert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $78.09! \| first editions
6	Murder at Government House more books like this by Elspeth Huxley Life at Government House in the African colony of Chania seemed relaxed and blooming to young anthropologist Olivia Brandeis--until the governor is found strangled at his desk, and a series of terrifying events begins. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $63.88! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Red Strangers more books like this by Elspeth Huxley, Richard Dawkins (Introduction by) Epic in its scale, Red Strangers spans four generations of Kikuyu family in Africa and their relationship with European settlers, nicknamed "red" strangers because of their sunburns. Huxley's engrossing portrait of a Kenyan tribe and their way of life, with its rituals, its beliefs, its codes and its morality, shows Europeans and their customs in ... see all copies from $19.34! new only from $19.34! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Nine faces of Kenya more books like this by Elspeth Huxley Drawing on her knowledge of Kenya and its literature, Huxley presents a fully rounded portrait of a nation, its peoples and wildlife, history and landscape, and the men and women who made their mark upon it. Isak Dinesen, Ernest Hemingway, the Leakeys, Beryl Markham, Winston Churchill, Evelyn Waugh, and Theodore Roosevelt are among the many ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $91.09! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Murder on Safari more books like this by Elspeth Huxley 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $65.09! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Last Days in Eden more books like this by Elspeth Huxley, Hugo Van Lawick see all copies from $1.99! new only from $54.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Scott of the Antarctic more books like this by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley Elspeth Huxley draws on the letters and diaries of Robert Peary Scott in her luminous biography. It reaches back to Scott's first voyage to the Antarctic, introduces the charming sculptor he married in middle age after a whirlwind of self-doubt, and builds up to the last expedition, that will always be remembered for the nobility shown by men ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.47! \| first editions
12	Livingstone and his African journeys more books like this by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley see all copies from $2.95! first editions
13	Gallipot Eyes: A Wiltshire Diary more books like this by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley "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 ... see all copies from $6.87! first editions
14	Florence Nightingale more books like this by Elspeth Huxley see all copies from $2.33! first editions
15	Four Guineas; a journey through West Africa more books like this by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley see all copies from $5.50! first editions
16	On the edge of the rift : memories of Kenya more books like this by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley see all copies from $3.00! first editions
17	Their shining Eldorado: a journey through Australia more books like this by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley see all copies from $1.99! new only from $169.77! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood, with a New Introduction by the Author more books like this by Elspeth Huxley, Francesca Pelizzoli (Illustrator) When her family set off to extend Britain's colonial settlements in Kenya to Thika, the author of this memoir was just a child, riding along in their cart. Her book recollects life growing up on her family's struggling farm, adventures in the jungle, and encounters with her family's Masai and Kikuyu neighbors. see all copies from $5.20! first editions \| SVS
19	Peter Scott: Painter & Naturalist more books like this by Elspeth Huxley 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. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $21.96! \| first editions
20	Out in the midday sun more books like this by Elspeth Huxley see all copies from $6.00! first editions
21	A New Earth more books like this by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley see all copies from $4.00! first editions
22	Murder on Safari more books like this by Elizabeth Huxley, Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley see all copies from $1.99! first editions
23	With forks and hope; an African notebook more books like this by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley see all copies from $3.00! first editions
24	Pioneers' Scrapbook: Reminiscences of Kenya, 1890 to 1968 more books like this by Elspeth Joscelin Grant Huxley see all copies from $20.75!
25	Kenya Diary: Nineteen Hundred to Nineteen Two more books like this by Richard Meinertzhagen, Elspeth Huxley see all copies from $79.00!

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