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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
de Huxley, Elspeth
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1555841449
- ISBN 13
- 9781555841447
- Librería
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Houlton, Maine, United States
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Sobre este artículo
NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987 288pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in black cloth, gilt still bright, binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. The dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover, and is NOT price-clipped.
Sinopsis
ELSPETH HUXLEY was born in 1906, the daughter of Major Josceline Grant of Njoro, Kenya, where she spent most of her childhood. 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. In 1929 she joined the Empire Marketing Board as a press officer. She married Gervas Huxley in 1931 and travelled widely with him in America, Africa and elsewhere. She was on the BBC General Advisory Council from 1952 to 1959, when she joined the Monckton Advisory Commission on Central Africa. 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 Antarctic (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 died in 1997.
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- Librería
- Monroe Bridge Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 009425
- Título
- The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
- Autor
- Huxley, Elspeth
- Ilustrador
- Pelizzoli, Francesca
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1555841449
- ISBN 13
- 9781555841447
- Editorial
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Lugar de publicación
- NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1987
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Palabras clave
- Africa African Childhood Thika Elspeth Huxley
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