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Elspeth Huxley : a biography

A portrait of the conservationalist and chronicler of colonial Kenya describes her childhood in east Africa and wartime Britain; marriage to Thomas Huxley; roles as a farmer, writer, and government advisor
Print Book, English, 2003
1st U.S. ed View all formats and editions
Thomas Dunne Books, New York, 2003
Biography
xiv, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
9780312300418, 0312300417
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Off to Africa
The first world war and its aftermath
Njoro, reading and the United States
Red strangers and the early crime novels
Domesticity, war and secret service
Motherhood and post-war austerity
Fame, not fortune
Mid-life and mid-career
Flame trees and A New earth
A productive decade
False starts, a social conscience and Australia
Bereavement
Final years