Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda - Couverture souple

Carr, Rosamond Halsey; Halsey, Ann Howard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0452282020 ISBN 13 : 9780452282025

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2000

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0452282020
• ISBN 13: 9780452282025
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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