The Africa House
The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream
$39.35
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2000
Summary
Bestselling account of a fascinating and complicated man.
In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Brown built himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia: a sprawling country estate modelled on the finest homes of England, complete with uniformed servants, daily muster parades, and rose gardens. He wanted to share it with the love of his life, the beautiful, unconventional Ethel Locke King, one of the first women to drive and fly. She, however, was nearly twenty yea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140268348 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140268340 |
| Author: | Christina Lamb |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2000 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 27mm |
About The Author
Christina Lamb
Christina Lamb is an award-winning journalist who, since graduating from Oxford twelve years ago, has lived overseas as a correspondent for the Financial Times in Pakistan and Brazil, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and correspondent for the Sunday Times in South Africa. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, she is an inveterate traveller. Her previous book, Waiting for Allah- Pakistan’s Struggle for Democracy, was published by Hamish Hamilton and Penguin. She is currently Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Sunday Times and lives with her husband and young son in London and Portugal.
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