Used. Paperback. Elspeth Huxley’s brilliant memoir brilliantly branches out from the ordinary, planting young roots in the untamed terrain of early twentieth-century Kenya. With a remarkably sharp eye for colonial eccentricities and African ecology alike, Huxley chronicles her family's formidable farm-building endeavors among the flame trees with wry British wit. You will quickly find yourself utterly captivated by this vividly wild upbringing where lions, locusts, and eccentric neighbors routinely disrupt the domestic peace. It is an adventurous, beautifully observed look at a vanished world that reads like the finest fiction, minus the roots of fabrication.