When Elspeth Huxleys pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What they lack in knowhow they make up for in determination building a grass house, employing local Kikuyu tribe members and painstakingly transforming their patch of wilderness into a working farm. Huxleys unforgettable childhood memoir is a sensitive account of settler life at the turn of the twentieth century and a love song to the harshness and beauty of East Africa.

Binding: Paperback;288 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BGA; Weight: 330 g; Dimensions: 193 x 181 x 19

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