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 married Gervas Huxley in 1931 and travelled widely with him in America, Africa and elsewhere. The Flame Trees of Thika:. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. In 1929 she joined the Empire Marketing Board as a press officer. Buy The Flame Trees of Thika Reprint by Huxley, Elspeth (ISBN: 9781906562397) from Amazons Book Store. 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. As pioneering settlers among the Kikuyu people, they learned about. Elspeth Huxley was born in 1906, the daughter of Major Josceline Grant of Njoro, Kenya, where she spent most of her childhood. Elspeth Huxley set off in an open cart with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. ELSPETH HUXLEY was born in 1906, the daughter of Major Josceline Grant of Njoro, Kenya, where she spent most of her childhood.
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