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Elspeth Huxley

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Nellie: Letters from Africa

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Nine Faces of Kenya: Portrait of a Nation

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On the Edge of the Rift: Memories of Kenya

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Out In The Midday Sun

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Peter Scott: painter and naturalist

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Red Strangers

Red Strangers is a 1939 novel by Elspeth Huxley. The story is an account of the arrival and effects of British colonialists, told through the eyes of four generations of Kikuyu tribesmen in Kenya. The book immerses the reader so completely in the pre-Western Kikuyu culture, that when the Kikuyu are paid money for …

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Scott of the Antarctic

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Suki A Little Tiger

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The African Poison Murders (Penguin Crime Monthly)

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The flame trees of Thika

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. With an extraordinary gift for detail and a keen sense of humor, Huxley …