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When Rosamond Halsey Carr first found its way to Africa, she didn't realize that she would spend the rest of her life there. As a young fashion illustrator residing in New York City in the 1940s, she looked like the least likely applicant for such a life of adventure. But marriage to a hunter-explorer got her from what was then your Belgian Congo, and divorce remaining her determined to stay on in neighboring Rwanda as the director of a flower plantation. In the ensuing half hundred years she witnessed the fall of colonialism, the wars for freedom, the loss of her good friend, Dian Fossey, the relentless clashes of the Hutus and Tutsis, and, finally, 1994's horrific genocide, of which she provides an unparalleled first-hand bill. This is actually the epic tale of a woman alone within an exotic land, struggling to endure untold hardships and then emerge with a fantastic love on her behalf adopted country and its people.
