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Land of a Thousand Hills, My Life in Rwanda
by Rosamond Halsey Carr
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 2000
- PAPER
- 248 PAGES
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Carr's chronicle of a remarkable life and her 50-year love affair with Africa. 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. 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. She died in 2006 at age 94.
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