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Critical Acclaim forLand of a Thousand Hills

Many lone women seem to have a deep affinity for Africa.
Thankfully, they continue to record their memoirs and enrich our
understanding of this vast continent... Carr thoughtfully
examines the bliss and turmoil of life near the Rwandan-Congo
border for over fifty tumultuous years... [She] has articulated a
new world for those who have not experienced the paradox that is
Africa... Readers will continue to be captivated.

The Christian Science Monitor (A Noteworthy Book of 1999)

Though she delves into the ethnic and political history behind Rwandas 1990s Hutu-Tutsi massacres, much of her story centers on a relatively tranquil, if arduous, plantation life... Carr has left her own mark of beauty on that tragic land.

USA Today

Riveting.

New York Post

While Rosamond Halsey Carr has made neither headlines nor history, her work has improved the lives of thousands of people. With the burgeoning of the memoir as a literary form, Land of a

Thousand Hills exemplifies the value of the genre. The Dallas Morning News

ROSAMOND HALSEY CARR is the last of the foreign plantation owners in Rwanda, where she runs a childrens orphanage. She has been featured on television programs from the Today show to CNN and the BBC.

ANN HOWARD HALSEY traveled to Rwanda to work with her aunt on this memoir. She lives in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

Land of a Thousand Hills describes, breathtakingly, a life with a view of a smoldering volcano, elephants as garden pests (sadly, the elephants are gone), tracking gorillas in the mountain forests with her friend Dian Fossey, running remote plantations by herself, choosing Rwanda over the marriage proposal of the second man she loved, Tutsi kings and herders, Hutu presidents and farmers, Batwa pygmies (hunters, and purveyors of pots and magic).

New York Newsday

Reading Land of a Thousand Hills is like sitting down for a long chat with a good friend whos been awayits satisfying conversation well worth waiting for.

The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

Fascinating... The perfect read for people who hunger for adventurous exploits.

Greensboro (North Carolina) News & Record

A remarkable woman and a powerful story... possessed of a great spirit... By turns informative, revealing, disturbing... fascinating. This book offers the closest, and probably most personal, perspective many of us are ever likely to get on the imperiled land of a thousand hills.

America

Reminiscent of Isak Dinesen... This beautifully rendered, evocative tale will surely capture your imagination.

Mode

Carr has lived an extraordinary life.

Booklist (starred review)

This is an excellent book... Those who enjoy travel, history, biography, womens studies, or just a fascinating read will want it.

Library Journal

Written with grace and self-assurance by Carr, with help from her niece... Carr is a keen observer, adept at both landscape description... and summarizing historical moments... A quiet and elegant beauty of a memoir, with a dignity that is at once antique and enviable.

Kirkus Reviews

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Published by the Penguin Group
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Published by Plume, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc.
Previously published in a Viking Penguin edition.

First Plume Printing, September 2000

Copyright Rosamond Halsey Carr and

Ann Howard Halsey, 1999 All rights reserved

Photograph credits:
Page 11 of photo section: three images of Dian Fossey:
Bob Campbell
Page 12 (top photo): Estate of Dian Fossey
Page 16 (bottom photo): Janice Gleason
All other photographs are from the collection of
Rosamond Halsey Carr.

REGISTERED TRADEMARKMARCA REGISTRADA

eISBN : 978-1-101-14351-3

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TO THE CHILDREN AT THE IMBABAZI ORPHANAGE;
AND TO SEMBAGARE,
MY VALUED AND TRUSTED FRIEND

PROLOGUE

When Kenneth suggested that we move to Africa, everyone thought we were mad. At that time, however, I would have followed him anywhere. It was the summer of 1949, and it was the beginning of what was to become a lifetime adventure. It is true that I was very much in love with Kenneth, but this is really the story of a love affair between a woman and a country. It took some time for this love affair to take hold. But take hold it did, and it has been going on now for almost fifty years.

My name is Rosamond Halsey Carr and my home is in Rwanda, a small country in east central Africa. Rwanda is called the Land of a Thousand Hills (or in French, Mille Collines), and much like the pattern of my life, its landscape is a tapestry of a thousand peaks and valleys that fill the horizon and beyond. The name is derived from the Virunga Mountains, a volcanic chain which forms the continental divide between the great Nile and Congo river basins. Rwanda lies just south of the Equator at an elevation of approximately five thousand feet. My home is a flower plantation called Mugongo, situated high in the foothills of the Virunga volcanoes at an elevation of seventy-eight hundred feet.

Rwanda is bounded on the west by Zaire, on the south by Burundi, on the east by Tanzania, and on the north by Uganda. The Rusizi River empties south from Lake Kivu to form its western boundary with Zaire. The southern region is scattered with numerous lakes and dense forests. To the east, a high plateau declines gently toward the low marshy plains and grassy savannas of the Akagera National Park and Akagera River, which empties into Lake Victoria and forms its eastern boundary with Tanzania. The northern region is dominated by the lofty peaks of the Virunga volcanoes and encompasses some of the most fertile land in all of Africa.

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