Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda

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, near bankruptcy, and an illfated love affair. 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 lost and orphaned children - work she continues to this day, at the age of eighty-eight. Out of an Africa now vanished into memory and myth, this is her extraordinary story.