The Africa House
The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream
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- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2005
Summary
In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port in the library. All that was missing was a woman to share it with. He adored the beautiful aviatrix Ethel Locke King, but she was almost twenty years his senior, married, and his aunt. Lorna, the only other woman Gore-Brown cared for, was married as well, but years later her orphaned daughter would become Gore-Browne’s wife. The story of a colonialist who beat his servants yet supported Rhodesian independence and who was given a chief’s burial by the local elders when he died, The Africa House rescues “from oblivion the life story of an astonishing man, an astonishing marriage, and an astonishing house” (The Spectator).
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780060735883 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0060735880 |
| Author: | Christina Lamb |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 367g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 136mm x 204mm |
| Series: | P. S. |
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Critics Review
“An amazing story of high hopes, lost love and ruined lives.” - Sunday Times (London)
“With scintillating prose and a vivid imagination, Lamb recreates Gore-Browne’s life from 1914 to 1967, and what a life it was … with mesmerizing detail.” - Booklist
Christina Lamb
Christina Lamb is one of the world’s leading foreign correspondents. Author of Farewell Kabul and New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, she has reported on Pakistan and Afghanistan since 1987. Educated at Oxford and Harvard, she is the author of five books and has won a number of awards, including Britain’s Foreign Correspondent of the Year five times, as well as the Prix Bayeux-Calvados, Europe’s most prestigious award for war correspondents. She currently works for the Sunday Times and lives in London and Portugal with her husband and son.
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