In this marvelous anthology, Elspeth Huxley, our best and most popular writer on Africa, has drawn on her unparalleled knowledge of Kenya and its literature to present a fully rounded portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world. In nine sections focusing on exploration, travel, settlement, war, hunting, wildlife, environment, life-styles, and legend and poetry, using only first-hand accounts, she guides the reader through the story of Kenya from AD100 to the present with her characteristic candour and directness.

Nine Faces of Kenya

History

HUXLEY, Elspeth

Africa

Harvill Press

Last Days in Eden

By Elspeth Huxley &amp; Hugo van Lawwick - 7.5x9.5" 192 pages profusely color illustrated illustrated with fantastic animal action photography. Copyright 1984 thus a First Edition, published by Harvill Press.

Last days in Eden

Lawick, Hugo Van

Distributed by W. Collins

Investigating mysterious incidents in an East African farming community, Vachell uncovers the death by poisoning of a German farmer suspected of Nazi sympathies and the burned body of an Englishman

African Poison Murders

Harpercollins Publisher

The extraordinary adventures of a childhood in Africa, recalled in rich and loving detail. In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers among the Kikuyu people, 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.

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Vintage Classics

She left the misty shores of England for an Eden in AfricaA Penquin Book2nd printing 1982

Travel

Penguin??Books

The author describes her family's return to their Kenya plantation after World War I and their experiences with friends, neighbors, and native workers

The Mottled Lizard

Biographies & Memoirs

A portrait of the romance and realities of colonial life in Kenya, this memoir offers an insider's perspective on colonial and modern Africa

Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya

Life at Government House in the African colony of Chania seems relaxed and booming though Olivia Brandeis, a young anthropologist, senses trouble brewing. And when the governor, Sir Malcolm McLeod, is found strangled at his desk, her intuition is proven sound. 
Enter Superintendent Vachell. His interrogation removes the crust of calm from the local community. But it is not until Olivia relates her encounter with a tribal witchdoctor that the riddle surrounding the murder is solved. 
"Secret societies, murder and mystery are set against the vivid African landscape in this crime classic from the author of THE AFRICAN POISON MURDERS and THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA." (Publisher's Source)

Murder at Government House (Crime, Penguin)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Investigating mysterious incidents in an East African farming community, Vachell uncovers the death by poisoning of a German farmer suspected of Nazi sympathies and the burned body of an Englishman

The African Poison Murders (Penguin Crime Monthly)

New editions of Elspeth Huxley's stirring account of her childhood in Kenya and her novel of the destructive forces of colonization. Epic in its scale, Red Strangers spans four generations of a Kikuyu family in Africa and their relationship with European settlers, nicknamed "red" strangers because of their sunburns. Huxley's engrossing portrait of a Kenyan tribe and their way of life, with its rituals, its beliefs, its codes and its morality, shows Europeans and their customs in stark, unflattering contrast with the Kikuyu. The differences in their attitudes to war, methods of cultivation, the administering of justice, and the use of money are played out in this novel of the damaging forces of colonization. With an Introduction by Richard Dawkins

Red Strangers

Literary

Penguin Classics

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Books by HUXLEY, Elspeth

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Nine Faces of Kenya

Last days in Eden

African Poison Murders

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

The Mottled Lizard

Out in the Midday Sun: My Kenya

Murder at Government House (Crime, Penguin)

The African Poison Murders (Penguin Crime Monthly)

Red Strangers