A history of the white settlers in Kenya and a sympathetic assessment of their political & agricultural role in the country. Reprint of book originally published in 1948 by Highway Press, Nairobi and Longmans, Green and Co.
Elspeth Joscelin Huxley was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.