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Author
Publisher
Penguins
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
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 discoveredthe hard waythe world of the African. With an extraordinary gift for detail and a keen sense of humor, Huxley recalls her childhood on the small farm at a time when Europeans waged their fortunes on a land that was as harsh as it was...
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her parents journey to the unspoiled wilderness of East Africa in 1913 where they struggle to transform a rugged plot of land into a farm.
The promised land: Tilly and Elspeth arrive in a Thika far from the Eden they imagined, but Robin reassures them the coffee plantation will soon be up and running. As they build friendships with local settlers and Kikuyu natives, Elspeth quickly falls under the spell of a strange, new land. Tilly,...
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