Land of a Thousand Hills by Rosamund Halsey Carr

Land of a Thousand Hills by Rosamund Halsey Carr

When Rosamond Halsey Carr first arrived in Africa, she didn't realize that she would spend the rest of her life there. As a young fashion illustrator living in New York City in the 1940s, she seemed the least likely candidate for such a life of adventure. But marriage to a hunter-explorer took her to what was then the Belgian Congo, and divorce left her determined to stay on in neighboring Rwanda as the manager of a flower plantation. In the ensuing half century she witnessed the fall of colonialism, the wars for independence, the loss of her friend, Dian Fossey, the relentless clashes of the Hutus and Tutsis, and finally, 1994's horrific genocide, of which she provides an unparalleled first-hand account. This is the epic story of a woman alone in an exotic land, struggling to survive untold hardships only to emerge with an extraordinary love for her adopted country and its people.

Rosamond Halsey Carr was an American humanitarian and author, as well as the last of the foreign plantation owners in Rwanda, where she ran a children's orphanage until her death in 2006.

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ISBN 13	9780670887804
ISBN 10	0670887803
Title	Land of a Thousand Hills
Author	Rosamund Halsey Carr
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Random House Australia
Year published	1999-09-30
Number of pages	248
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