Land of a Thousand Hills | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780452282025 | Land of a Thousand Hills | My Life in Rwanda | Carr (u. a.) | Buch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Rosamond Halsey Carr was an American humanitarian and author, as well as the last of the foreign plantation owners in Rwanda, where she ran a children's orphanage until her death in 2006.

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2000
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780452282025
ISBN-10:	0452282020
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Carr, Rosamond Halsey Halsey, Ann Howard
Orchester:	Halsey, Ann Howard
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Rosamond Halsey Carr (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2000
Gewicht:	0,367 kg