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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.
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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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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Empfohlen (von): | 18 |
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 2000 |
Genre: | Biographien |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780452282025 |
ISBN-10: | 0452282020 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: |
Halsey, Ann Howard
Carr, Rosamond Halsey |
Orchester: | Halsey, Ann Howard |
Hersteller: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | Ann Howard Halsey (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2000 |
Gewicht: | 0,367 kg |
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 |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780452282025 |
ISBN-10: | 0452282020 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: |
Halsey, Ann Howard
Carr, Rosamond Halsey |
Orchester: | Halsey, Ann Howard |
Hersteller: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | Ann Howard Halsey (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.09.2000 |
Gewicht: | 0,367 kg |
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