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Land of a Thousand Hills : My Life in Rwanda

Land of a Thousand Hills : My Life in Rwanda Hardcover - 1999

by Ann Howard Halsey; Rosamond Halsey Carr

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Penguin Publishing Group, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Land of a Thousand Hills : My Life in Rwanda
  • Author Ann Howard Halsey; Rosamond Halsey Carr
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0670887803I4N00
  • ISBN 9780670887804 / 0670887803
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.35 x 1 in (23.70 x 16.13 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Americans - Rwanda, Rwanda - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99013132
  • 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.

From the publisher

Rosamond Halsey Carr is the last of the foreign plantation owners in Rwanda, where she now runs a children's orphanage. She has been featured on television programs from The Today Show to CNN to the BBC.

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