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ELEPHANT ROAD by Maureen de la Harpe (Rhodesia \ Zimbabwe \ Harare - Africa)

$ELEPHANT ROAD by Maureen de la Harpe (Rhodesia \ Zimbabwe \ Harare - Africa)$

A rare novel (fiction) based set in the 1890s and 1950s in Harare, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. The plot was inspired by the story two English nurses, Rose Blennerhassett and Lucy Sleeman, who walked from Portuguese East Africa to the interior of Southern Africa in the early 1890s. The author has spent most of her life in Zimbabwe.

This is a used book in good condition: clean and lightly read around the edges; nice clean white pages; excellent binding. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: The year is 1891, when English nurses Clarissa Hamilton and Emma Clarke trek from thr Portugese East African Coast, through plains teeming with wildlife, to the wild, beautiful heart of Southern Africa to set up a hospital in Rhodesia. After a failed affair at home Liz Pendennis visits Africa to see some relatives and get a distance from her problems. While there she reads for the first time a diary her grandmother Clarissa Hamilton kept during the early years of Rhodesia founding when she made an epic cross-country trek though the bush that many thought would kill her. Liz finds, as she drawn into the African world around her that there may be more to her grandmother's story than she ever imagined and even now it could change her life.

Book Details

Code: SKU871

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 351

Published: 2000 by Author, Perth, Australia

ISBN: 0646392840

Postage: $6.90

Price: AUD $14.00