The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream
- ISBN-10
- 0140268340
- ISBN-13
- 9780140268348
- Category
- British
- Pages
- 345
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Author
- Christina Lamb
Description
Christina Lamb's best selling account of this fascinating and complicated man - a colonialist who beat his servants yet supported independence, a stiff Englishman with deep passions - is a master piece of biographical storytelling. It is a tale of fantasies made real, tragedy endured and life long love.
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- 2014-02-13
- 416 pages
- Paperback
- Penguin UK
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- 2005-11-29
- 352 pages
- Paperback
- Harper Collins
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