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Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda

Categorie	Geschiedenis Afrika
Boeknummer	#343080-XH20
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 tu... (Lees verder)rned 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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