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Land of a Thousand Hills
My Life in Rwanda
Taschenbuch von Ann Howard Halsey (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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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
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
Artikel-ID: 123830643
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
Artikel-ID: 123830643
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