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Elspeth Huxley

Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an author, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote 30 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 Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.

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How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide li ...

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life ...

To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and m ...

“Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he ...

“Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone-and no one minds ...

The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you ...

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it i ...

They [zebras] looked like highly varnished animated toys.

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the co ...

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abid ...

[... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of ...

The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or ...

The pioneer kills what he loves.