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![]() 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. She wrote a total of 30 books, including three mysteries, Murder. ![]() She married Gervas Huxley in 1931 and travelled widely with him in America, Africa and elsewhere. Elspeth Huxley is best known for The Flame Trees of Thika, in which she recalls her childhood years growing up in Kenya. ![]() 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. When Elspeth Huxleys pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan. Elspeth Huxley was born in 1906, the daughter of Major Josceline Grant of Njoro, Kenya, where she spent most of her childhood. The Flame Trees of Thika Season 1 Based on the beloved memoir by Elspeth Huxley, this BAFTA-nominated drama stars Hayley Mills, David Robb, and Holly Aird as a British family who relocate to British East Africa in order to set up a coffee plantation. ![]()
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