The Flame Trees Of Thika

Author : Elspeth Huxley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101651393
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flame Trees of Thika written by Elspeth Huxley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 beautiful. For a young girl, it was a time of adventure and freedom, and Huxley paints an unforgettable portrait of growing up among the Masai and Kikuyu people, discovering both the beauty and the terrors of the jungle, and enduring the rugged realities of the pioneer life.

Author : Elspeth Huxley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446475794
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mottled Lizard written by Elspeth Huxley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to The Flame of Thika, Elspeth Huxley takes up her story after the family returns to Kenya after the First World War. Her family and friends, their home and their travels, the glorious wildlife and scenery, described in rich and loving detail, all spring to life in this enchanting book. 'She knows East Africa and she loves it. . . with a critical and understanding sympathy. ' The Times 'What a marvellous writer. . . and what a Kenya it was. ' Financial Times

Author : Elspeth Huxley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141183787
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flame Trees of Thika written by Elspeth Huxley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 beautiful. For a young girl, it was a time of adventure and freedom, and Huxley paints an unforgettable portrait of growing up among the Masai and Kikuyu people, discovering both the beauty and the terrors of the jungle, and enduring the rugged realities of the pioneer life.

Author : C.S. Nicholls
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312300418
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elspeth Huxley written by C.S. Nicholls and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the conservationalist and chronicler of colonial Kenya describes her childhood in east Africa and wartime Britain; marriage to Thomas Huxley; roles as a farmer, writer, and government advisor.

Author : Alexandra Fuller
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 : 9780143121862
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EXP Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness written by Alexandra Fuller and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexandra Fuller
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375758992
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight written by Alexandra Fuller and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003-03-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her headstrong, unforgettable mother. “This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over.”—Newsweek “By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling.”—The New Yorker Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time. From 1972 to 1990, Alexandra Fuller—known to friends and family as Bobo—grew up on several farms in southern and central Africa. Her father joined up on the side of the white government in the Rhodesian civil war, and was often away fighting against the powerful black guerilla factions. Her mother, in turn, flung herself at their African life and its rugged farm work with the same passion and maniacal energy she brought to everything else. Though she loved her children, she was no hand-holder and had little tolerance for neediness. She nurtured her daughters in other ways: She taught them, by example, to be resilient and self-sufficient, to have strong wills and strong opinions, and to embrace life wholeheartedly, despite and because of difficult circumstances. And she instilled in Bobo, particularly, a love of reading and of storytelling that proved to be her salvation. Alexandra Fuller writes poignantly about a girl becoming a woman and a writer against a backdrop of unrest, not just in her country but in her home. But Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is more than a survivor’s story. It is the story of one woman’s unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly realized and deeply felt. Praise for Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight “Riveting . . . [full of] humor and compassion.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “The incredible story of an incredible childhood.”—The Providence Journal

Author : Sandra K. Dolby
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090993
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Help Books written by Sandra K. Dolby and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding instead of lamenting the popularity of self-help books Based on a reading of more than three hundred self-help books, Sandra K. Dolby examines this remarkably popular genre to define "self-help" in a way that's compelling to academics and lay readers alike. Self-Help Books also offers an interpretation of why these books are so popular, arguing that they continue the well-established American penchant for self-education, they articulate problems of daily life and their supposed solutions, and that they present their content in a form and style that is accessible rather than arcane. Using tools associated with folklore studies, Dolby then examines how the genre makes use of stories, aphorisms, and a worldview that is at once traditional and contemporary. The overarching premise of the study is that self-help books, much like fairy tales, take traditional materials, especially stories and ideas, and recast them into extended essays that people happily read, think about, try to apply, and then set aside when a new embodiment of the genre comes along.

Author : Nellie Grant
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 : 9780688004750
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nellie's Story written by Nellie Grant and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1981 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Hall
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595815968
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selengai written by Mary Hall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern story of three beautiful farms, Selengai, Bahati and Saba Saba, each loved passionately by their owners who will fight drought, disease even death to keep them. With the spaceless plains of Masai country as the backdrop to their lives, it is their memories, adventures, joy and pain that inspire them in the country in which they have all grown up. Time to move on from "Out of Africa" and "The Flame Trees of Thika!"

Author : Elspeth Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517063064
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder at Government House written by Elspeth Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1991-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia Brandeis, a young anthropologist, could sense that trouble was brewing at Government House in the African colony of Chania. Eventually her suspicions are confirmed when the Governor, Sir Malcolm Macleod, is found strangled at his desk. And when the identity of the murderer is indicated, a terrifying series of vicious events ensues.