![]() She wrote novels, detective fiction, biography and travel titles, and her books include The Mottled Lizard (1962), The Challenge of Africa (1971), Livingstone and His African Journeys (1974), Florence Nightingale (1975), Scott of the Antartic (1977), Nellie: Letters from Africa (1980), Whipsnade: Captive Breeding for Survival (1981), The Prince Buys the Manor (1982), Last Days in Eden and Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya (1985). She was on the BBC General Advisory Council from 1952 to 1959, when she joined the Monckton Advisory Commission on Central Africa. An edition of The flame trees of Thika (1959) The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley 0 Ratings 7 Want to read 0 Currently reading 1 Have read Overview View 33 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date January 1959 Publisher Books on Tape Language English Previews available in: English This edition doesn't have a description yet. ![]() Elspeth was educated at a whites-only school in Nairobi. It was adapted into a television miniseries in 1981. She married Gervas Huxley in 1931 and travelled widely with him in America, Africa and elsewhere. Huxley's 1959 book The Flame Trees of Thika explores how unprepared for rustic life the early British settlers really were. In 1929 she joined the Empire Marketing Board as a press officer. ![]() She was educated at the European School in Nairobi and at Reading University where she took a diploma in agriculture, and at Cornell University, USA. ![]() Elspeth Huxley was born in 1906, the daughter of Major Josceline Grant of Njoro, Kenya, where she spent most of her childhood. ![]()
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