The Africa House. The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream (Taschenbuch) von Christina Lamb Rezensionen: On Good Friday in 1914, a young British Army officer named Stewart Gore-Browne first glimpsed a lake in what was then Northern Rhodesia that the local Bemba tribe calledShiwa Ngandu("Lake of the Royal Crocodiles"). At that moment, a love affair began which would last his lifetime, as the enraptured Gore-Browne set about creating a very British idyll in the African bush, complete with redbrick house and a terrace on which uniformed staff would serve champagne and cocktails. This is the complicated story of a man, his colonial vision, and the burden it became, set against the country in which he battles to realise it. Christina Lamb has assembled the story from the mass of diaries and correspondence that lay within the now crumbling and neglected house. It is an extraordinary tale that leaps off the page with the grace of a springbok. Gore-Browne initially appears an extinct species, all Harrovian vowels, and prone to pepper with lead shot anything that moves. He is, however, infused with a liberal, humane streak that leads him in later life to support Kenneth Kaunda and the UNIP in their fight for power. Indeed, Kaunda said of him, "... he [Gore-Browne] was born an English gentleman, and died a Zambian gentleman". Gore-Browne's personal life progressed from an unrequited love to a dramatic marriage, while still indulging in a formidably passionate correspondence with a favourite aunt. There are times when you wish for a timely swipe of the novelist's pen, but it is the nature of this beast that questions remain unanswered; what holds this engrossing chronicle in place is theAfrica Houseitself, and the lives that unfold in and around it, perched incongruously as it is in a country that has outgrown it. --David Vincent © 1998-2001 Amazon.com, Inc. und Tochtergesellschaften Alle Rezensionen ansehen...   Angebote zu  Africa ,  House ,  True  ab 1 Euro! Sonstige Artikel: Die Religionen der Welt den Kindern erklärt (Broschiert) von Franz Menke Mineralogie: Eine Einfuhrung in Die Spezielle Mineralogie, Petrologie Und Lagerstattenkunde (Springer Lehrbuch) (Gebundene Ausgabe) von Martin Okrusch, Siegfried Matthes Das politische System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Broschiert) von Wolfgang Rudzio Mehr zu  Biographies & Memoirs,  Africa,  Southern Africa,  Zambia Home ...,    Verwandte produkte ...,    Begleitseite ... Herausgeber dieser Seite ist DomainLoc.com GmbH - Partner von Amazon.de Copyright © DomainLoc.com GmbH (Impressum)