Uganda, 5th: The Bradt Travel Guide
by Philip Briggs
from Bradt Travel Guides
Rwanda, 3rd: The Bradt Travel Guide
by Philip Briggs
from Bradt Travel Guides
Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda
by Rosamond Halsey Carr
from Plume
If you enjoyed Out of Africa and West with the Night, here's another amazing woman's story of her adventurous African life. Rosamond Halsey Carr left her job as a young New York City fashion illustrator in the 1940s to join her hunter-explorer husband in the Belgian Congo; after their divorce, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda as the manager of a flower plantation. For the next 50 years she lived an extraordinary life, witnessing the fall of colonialism, the loss of her friend Dian Fossey, and the relentless clashes between the Hutus and the Tutsis. Although this book includes a poignant insider's account of the events surrounding the horrific 1994 genocide, it also provides a beautiful portrait of the Rwanda that was--and still is. After being evacuated during the genocide, Carr returned to Rwanda and, at age 82, rebuilt her home from the ground up, intent on opening a home for some 100 orphaned children.
Carr's humble tenacity and bold strength animate her historical, cultural, and personal accounts. Arriving in Africa in 1949, she witnesses the traditions of the royal Tutsi dynasty, sails up the Congo to camp in pygmy villages, encounters leopards, mingles with European aristocrats, finds and loses love, and lives through Congo independence and civil war. Her passion for the country and its people makes for a life story that is both tragic and hopeful, and full of interesting details that animate the spirit of Rwanda. --Kathryn True
"A remarkable life story, reminiscent of Out of Africa."--Vogue
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.
"Carr's book is a testament to the courage, perseverance, and resilience of the land to which she has given her heart."--San Francisco Examiner
Dangerous Beauty - Life and Death in Africa: Life and Death In Africa: True Stories From a Safari Guide
by Mark C. Ross
from Miramax
On March 1, 1999, American safari guide Mark Ross was camping with four clients in Uganda searching for endangered mountain gorillas. By day's end, two of these clients and six other tourists were dead at the hands of Rwandan rebels. As a man who loves East Africa, Ross felt betrayed by this horror, which made headlines around the world. He writes, 'The continent has always been the love of my life. Now there is trouble between us.' Dangerous Beauty is the story of that love and trouble. Ross writes here about his close-up encounters with danger and natural beauty in Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Uganda. He describes his walks in the bush and the way he teaches his clients to read unearthly silences and stillnesses in the wind that signify trouble. He writes about deadly charges by elephants and the electric excitement of witnessing the mass migrations of wildebeest and zebras. He writes, too, in detail about the terrible events of 1999. Imbued with Ross's passion for East Africa, this is an unforgettable account of a life of remarkable adventures, and a memorable vision of a beautiful, deadly, and fragile world.
The Overwhelming: A Play
by J. T. Rogers
from Faber & Faber
In The Overwhelming, J.T. Rogers has written a play that is both a brilliantly crafted piece of writing and a tense, suspenseful exploration of one of the great human tragedies of our time. It will have its U.S. premiere off-Broadway in November 2007.
Uganda Map by Nelles (Nelles Maps)
by Nelles
from Nelles Verlag GmbH
Folded road and travel map in color. Traces six different kinds of highways and roads, shows road numbers and railway lines. Places of interest are marked directly on the map: airports, archeological sites, lodges and campsites. beaches and water recreation areas, as well as national parks. Exquisitely subtle relief shading makes this map resemble an aerial photo. Includes a city plan of central Kampala that includes markets, shopping centers, places to stay, embassies, places to worship and important buildings.
Africa's Top Wildlife Countries: Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia & Zimbabwe (Africa's Top Wildlife Countries)
by Mark W. Nolting
from Global Travel Publishers
North of South: An African Journey (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Shiva Naipaul
from Penguin Classics
Rwanda/Burundi Map by ITMB
by Michaela Fritz
from ITMB Publishing Ltd
Folded road and travel map in color. Scale 1:300,000. Distinguishes roads ranging from main roads to tracks/paths. Legend includes international boundaries, provincial boundaries, settlements, international airports, airfields, churches/missions, points of interest, hotels/lodging, forests, national parks. Includes inset map of Kigali and Bujumbura.
Uganda Map by ITMB
by Itmb Publishing Ltd
from International Travel Maps and Books
Folded road and travel map in color. Scale 1:800,000. Distinguishes roads ranging from primary paved roads to other roads or tracks. Legend includes railroads, trails, international airports, national airports, aerodromes, gasoline/petrol stations, post offices, hospitals/medical facilities, points of ineterest or vistas, ruins.archaeological sites, museums, campsites/huts, mines, resthouses/hostels, lodging, car ferries, forts, border crossings. Includes inset map Kampala, information about Uganda and extensive index.
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