Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda
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"A remarkable life story, reminiscent of Out of Africa."--Vogue
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.
"Carr's book is a testament to the courage, perseverance, and resilience of the land to which she has given her heart."--San Francisco Examiner
Features
- Theme: Biography & Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Biography & Autobiography / Women, Biography / Autobiography, Biography/Autobiography, Biography: general, Ethnic Cultures - General, Personal Memoirs, Travelers, Women
- Date Published: September 01, 2000
- Publisher: Plume
- Author: Rosamond Halsey Carr, Ann Howard Halsey
- Pages: 256
- Format: Paperback
Additional Information
- ASIN: 0452282020
- ISBN: 0452282020
- Item can be gift wrapped.
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