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The flame trees of Thika; memories of an African childhood
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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.
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African Poison Murders
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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.
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Murder at Government House
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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.
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Out in the midday sun
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Elspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her 'memories of an African childhood' in "The Flame Trees of Thika" and "The Mottled Lizard". In this final volume of her trilogy she tells the story of her adult life in Africa, in which the vigorously evoked personalities - from the pioneer Lord Delamere and Baroness Blixen to Jomo ...
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Their shining Eldorado: a journey through Australia
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Four Guineas; a journey through West Africa
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Livingstone and his African journeys
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The prince buys the manor : an extravaganza
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Four Guineas.
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Murder on Safari
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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.
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A New Earth
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Journey Through East Africa
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White man's country; Lord Delamere and the making of Kenya
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Whipsnade : captive breeding for survival
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The Kingsleys: a biographical anthology
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Elspeth Joscelin Huxley (Grant) (Compiled by), Charles Kingsley, Henry Kingsley, G. H. Kingsley
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Love among the daughters
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On the edge of the rift : memories of Kenya
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Pioneers' Scrapbook: Reminiscences of Kenya, 1890 to 1968
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The walled city : a novel
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Love among the daughters; memories of the twenties in England and America
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Scott of the Antarctic
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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 ...
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Gallipot Eyes: A Wiltshire Diary
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"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 ...
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Florence Nightingale
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Back street new worlds; a look at immigrants in Britain
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The walled city.
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