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Book SynopsisElspeth 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 Commision on Central Africa. She wrote novels, detective fiction, biography and travel titles, and her books include
The Flame Trees of Thika (1959),
The Challenge of Africa (1971),
Livingstone and His African Journeys (1974),
Florence Nightingale (1975),
Scott of the Antarctic (1977),
Nellie: Letter from Africa (1980),
Whipsnade: Captive Breeding for Survival (1981),
The Prince Buys the Manor (1982
Trade ReviewShe knows East Africa and she loves it - the people, black and white, and the wild beauy of its countryside - with a critical and understanding sympathy * The Times *
More lyrical than the first volume * The Washington Post *
