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This is the startling, true-life story of Stewart Gore-Brown, who spent his life building a sprawling Victorian mansion in remote bush-land of what was then Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia); The Africa House. Gore Brown emerges as a complex, fascinating character. For most of his adult life life he was obsessed with a long-distance (unconsummated ) affair that he carried out with an aristocratic English woman who was 20 years older - and also his aunt; he ends up marrying her daughter. Meanwhile, in some respects he behaves as the caricature of of a white colonial master, dressing formally for dinner every night in his rambling mansion - but is clearly loved by many of his staff and becomes friends with many of the leading figures in the country's struggle for independence.. I have served in Africa as a diplomat, and I found this portrayal of the dying days of the…
Christina Lamb's The Africa House is the bestselling account of an English gentleman and his African dream.
In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a sprawling country estate modelled on the finest homes of England, complete with uniformed servants, daily muster parades and rose gardens. He wanted to share it with the love of his life, the beautiful unconventional Ethel Locke King, one of the first women to drive and fly. She, however, was nearly twenty years his senior, married and his aunt. Lorna, the only other woman he…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Having spent a year sailing the remote channels of Tierra del Fuego, I devour any book that recalls the formative time that a young Charles Darwin spent in these waters, aboard HMS Beagle. There is little - if any - new research here, but Diana Preston writes fluently and engagingly. Darwin's evolving view of the world is well-captured - the title is apposite.
From the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning historian, the colorful, dramatic story of Charles Darwin's journey on HMS Beagle that inspired the evolutionary theories in his path-breaking books On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man
When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey…
