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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
de Elspeth Huxley
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good+ — in Good Dust Wrapper. Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded with fraying to the s
- Librería
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1959. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Good+ — in Good Dust Wrapper. Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded with fraying to the spine ends. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Previous owners' name to the first blank. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (green boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (0.9 kg); 288pp; Cover art by Rosemary Seligman; Includes: Frontispiece; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199662|| Condition:
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
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 199662
- Título
- The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood
- Autor
- Elspeth Huxley
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good+ — in Good Dust Wrapper. Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded with fraying to the s
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- London: Chatto & Windus
- Fecha de publicación
- 1959
- Palabras clave
- african childhood, african youth, kenyan childhood, kenya, east african childhood, east african history, kenya history, social history kenya, customs kenya, kenyan biography, kenyan life story, kenyan memoirs, kenyan biographies, kenyan society, social co
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset
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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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