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Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda Paperback - 2000
by Carr, Rosamond Halsey; Halsey, Ann Howard
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Carr's thrilling memoir is a testament to her life in Rwanda--a love affair with a country and a people that has spanned half a century. Following 1994's Hutu-Tutsi genocide, the author turned her plantation into a shelter for the lost and orphaned children, work she continues to this day at the age of 87. "A remarkable life story, reminiscent of "Out of Africa"".--"Vogue". of photos.
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- Title Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda
- Author Carr, Rosamond Halsey; Halsey, Ann Howard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York
- Date 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0452282020I3N10
- ISBN 9780452282025 / 0452282020
- Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 9.15 x 6.02 x 0.61 in (23.24 x 15.29 x 1.55 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: African
- Ethnic Orientation: African
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Americans - Rwanda, Rwanda - Social life and customs
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
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.