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050	0	0	_aDT450.2 _b.C37 1999
082	0		_a967.571 CAR
100	1		_aCarr, Rosamond Halsey
245	1	0	_aLand of a thousand hills _b: my life in Rwanda _c/ Rosamond Halsey Carr with Ann Howard Halsey
260			_aNew York _b: Plume _c, 2000, c1999.
300			_aviii, 248 p. _b: ill., maps _c; 24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aIn 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.
600	1	0	_aCarr, Rosamond Halsey
651		0	_aRwanda _x--Description and travel
651		0	_aRwanda _x--Biography
700	1		_aHalsey, Ann Howard
942			_cMO
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