The Africa House by Christina Lamb

The Africa House by Christina Lamb

In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port in the library. All that was missing was a woman to share it with. He adored the beautiful aviatrix Ethel Locke King, but she was almost twenty years his senior, married, and his aunt. Lorna, the only other woman Gore-Brown cared for, was married as well, but years later her orphaned daughter would become Gore-Browne's wife. The story of a colonialist who beat his servants yet supported Rhodesian independence and who was given a chief's burial by the local elders when he died, The Africa House rescues from oblivion the life story of an astonishing man, an astonishing marriage, and an astonishing house (The Spectator).

Lamb, Christina: - Christina Lamb is one of Britain's leading foreign correspondents and coauthor of the internationally bestselling and transformative I Am Malala. She has reported from most of the world's hotspots. She has won fourteen major awards, including being named Foreign Correspondent of the Year five times and Europe's top war reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux and was recently named by Harper's Bazaar as one of Britain's 150 Most Visionary Women. She is the author of The Sewing Circles of Herat and The Africa House, among others, as well as the coauthor of Nujeen and the bestselling memoir I Am Malala. She was made an OBE (Order of the British Empire) by the Queen in 2013 and is an honorary fellow of University College, Oxford. She is the proud mum of a teenage boy.

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ISBN 13	9780060735876
ISBN 10	0060735872
Title	The Africa House
Author	Christina Lamb
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Harper
Year published	2004-12-14
Number of pages	400
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