The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood.

Huxley, Elspeth

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, London, 1959

Beschreibung

First edition of Huxley's autobiographical work based on her early life among white settlers on her father's coffee plantation in Kenya. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Elspeth Huxley on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rosemary Seligman. Uncommon signed. Elspeth Huxley prolifically wrote thirty books, but she is best known for her lyrical books The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard. Both are based on her experiences growing up in a coffee farm in Colonial Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley was related to both Thomas and Aldous Huxley (Lownie, 2006). A year after the publication of The Flame Trees of Thika, Huxley was appointed an independent member of the Advisory Commission for the Review of the Constitution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. She was an advocate of colonialism early in life and later called for independence for African countries (Ibid.). In the 1960s, she served as a correspondent for the National Review magazine. It was later made into the well received television series originally airing in 1981. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 110441

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an ...

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1959

Einband: Softcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage