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

Carr, Rosamond Halsey; Halsey, Ann Howard

 
9780452282025: Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda
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.

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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.

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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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Personne responsable
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