Book Description
Sequel to The big sky and The way west--Cover.
Author : Alfred Bertram Guthrie
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780395755204
Sequel to The big sky and The way west--Cover.
Author : Josh Ruxin
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316232890
One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think you can really make a difference? Especially in a place like Rwanda, where the scars of genocide linger and poverty is rampant? While Josh worked hard bringing food and health care to the country's rural villages, Alissa was determined to put their foodie expertise to work. The couple opened Heaven, a gourmet restaurant overlooking Kigali, which became an instant success. Remarkably, they found that between helping youth marry their own local ingredients with gourmet recipes (and mix up "the best guacamole in Africa") and teaching them how to help themselves, they created much-needed jobs while showing that genocide's survivors really could work together. While first a memoir of love, adventure, and family, A Thousand Hills to Heaven also provides a remarkable view of how, through health, jobs, and economic growth, our foreign aid programs can be quickly remodeled and work to end poverty worldwide.
Author : Alfred B. Guthrie
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553209280
Author : Hanna Jansen
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1467765961
Before one fateful April day, Jeanne lived the life of a typical Rwandan girl. She fought with her little sister, went to school, and teased her brother. Then, in one horrifying night, everything changed. Political troubles unleashed a torrent of violence upon the Tutsi ethnic group. Jeanne’s family, all Tutsis, fled their home and tried desperately to reach safety. They—along with nearly 1 million others—did not survive. The only survivor of her family’s massacre, Jeanne witnessed unspeakable acts. But through courage, wits, and sheer force of will, she survived. Based on a true story, this haunting novel by Jeanne’s adoptive mother makes unforgettably real the events of the 1994 Rwandan genocide as one family experienced it. Jeanne’s story is a tribute to the human spirit and its capacity to heal.
Author : Stephen Kinzer
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2009-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 047073003X
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home. Learn about President Kagame, who strives to make Rwanda the first middle-income country in Africa, in a single generation. In this adventurous tale, learn about Kagame’s early fascination with Che Guevara and James Bond, his years as an intelligence agent, his training in Cuba and the United States, the way he built his secret rebel army, his bloody rebellion, and his outsized ambitions for Rwanda.
Author : Alfred Bertram Guthrie (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 1971
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Hayes
Publisher :
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 1959
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Rosamond Halsey Carr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101143517
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.
Author : Brenda Jackson
Publisher : Signet
Page : pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 1971-02-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780451045140
Author : Alfred Bertram Guthrie (Jr.)
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618154623
An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the harsh trials and resounding triumphs of pioneer life. With THE WAY WEST, he pays homage to the grandeur of the western wilderness, its stark and beautiful scenery, and its extraordinary people.