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Land of a Thousand Hills
Door Rosamond Halsey Carr e.a.
| Categorie | Geschiedenis Afrika |
|---|---|
| Boeknummer | #343080 |
| Titel | Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda |
| Auteur | Halsey Carr, Rosamond & Ann Howard Halsey |
| Boektype | Paperback |
| Uitgeverij | Plume Books |
| Jaar van uitgave | 2000 |
| ISBN10 | 0452282020 |
| ISBN13 | 9780452282025 |
| Taal | Engels |
| Beschrijving | Paperback, illustrated with numerous b/w photographs, 8vo. |
| Samenvatting | In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation. Land of a Thousand Hills is Carr's thrilling memoir of her life in Rwanda-a love affair with a country and a people that has spanned half a century. During those years, she has experienced everything from stalking leopards to rampaging elephants, drought, the mysterious murder of her friend Dian Fossey, and near-bankruptcy. She has chugged up the Congo River on a paddle-wheel steamboat, been serenaded by pygmies, and witnessed firsthand the collapse of colonialism. Following 1994's Hutu-Tutsi genocide, Carr turned her plantation into a shelter for the lost and orphaned children-work she continues to this day, at the age of eighty-seven. |
| Pagina's | 248 |
| Conditie | Goed — Browned. |
| Prijs | € 10,00 |
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