![]() ![]() I feel cheated, and am not just in this feeling, because I remember the people as being good and funny, but it really wasn’t written that way. I also remember the farm managers as being noble, in fact, these men were petty and dishonest. ![]() ![]() Lettuce, who I remembered as being elegant and beautiful, was actually shallow. Reading this novel the second time was a disappointment. ![]() Africa seemed like it could have been on a foreign planet to me at the time as I saw the country through Elspeth’s experiences. I remember reading The Flame Trees of Thika as a young teen, and being entranced with the world of Africa. 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. 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. 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. In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. ![]()
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