The Flame Trees of Thika

In this enchanting, critically acclaimed series set in the early 1900s, 11-year-old Elspeth Grant travels with her parents from England to the East African wilderness, where they dream of building a coffee plantation. Share their wonder at the leopards, elephants and giraffes roaming the plains, and meet neighboring Masai and Kikuyu natives - all through the wide eyes of young Elspeth. As seen on Masterpiece Theatre, starring Hayley Mills, and based on the memoir by Elspeth Huxley. Includes all 7 episodes from the critically acclaimed mini-series.

When Kikuyu tribe members rebuilt the Grants? mud-walled hut for filming in 1981, men put up the wooden frame, and women thatched the roof?just as tribe members had built the original hut in 1913.