Leaves from the Fig Tree

Diana Duff (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2003
Summersdale Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-84024-363-5 (ISBN)

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At 18, Diana entered the glamorous world of 1950s' Kenya, becoming a stand-in for Grace Kelly before embarking on a career as a nurse. After marrying a young officer in the Colonial Service, Diana spent her nights shivering and alone, gun in hand, as the Mau Mau rebellion threatened to engulf her.

Raised by eccentric grandparents at Annesgrove, an Irish stately home, Diana Duff grew up surrounded by family ghosts, banshees and buried treasure. At 18, Diana entered the glamorous world of 1950s Kenya, becoming a stand-in for Grace Kelly before embarking on a career as a nurse. After marrying a young officer in the Colonial Service, Diana spent her nights shivering and alone, gun in hand, as the Mau Mau rebellion threatened to engulf her. Moving to Tanganyika, Diana went on to found the first inter-racial nursery school in East Africa before a transfer saw the family shifting to South Africa in the 1960s at the height of apartheid.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.7.2003
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika
ISBN-10	1-84024-363-5 / 1840243635
ISBN-13	978-1-84024-363-5 / 9781840243635
Zustand	Neuware