Carr, Rosamond Halsey <br/><br/>
Land of a thousand hills  : my life in Rwanda 
/ Rosamond Halsey Carr with Ann Howard Halsey 
 - New York  : Plume  , 2000, c1999. 
 - viii, 248 p.  : ill., maps  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780452282025 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99013132 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Carr, Rosamond Halsey
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Rwanda----Description and travel<br/>Rwanda----Biography
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DT450.2  / .C37 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>967.571 CAR