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Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda
de Carr, Rosamond Halsey, Halsey, Ann Howard
- Usado
- Estado
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0452282020
- ISBN 13
- 9780452282025
- Librería
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Plume. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Wonder Book
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- O09P-00695
- Título
- Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda
- Autor
- Carr, Rosamond Halsey, Halsey, Ann Howard
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0452282020
- ISBN 13
- 9780452282025
- Editorial
- Plume
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2000-09-01
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