About this title: In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political views and opposition to the minority white Government. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked by the author in a narrative of detail. She embraces every facet of life in Zimbabwe from the lost animals in the bush to political corruption, from AIDS to a successful communal enterprise created by rural blacks, and ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Flamingo
Date Published: 1993-11-15
ISBN-13:9780006546900ISBN:0006546900
Description: Like New. Trade paperback. Like new. Looks new and unread. NO MARKS OR HIGHLIGHTING! Completely Clean, tight, straight, unmarked. Vague inside page edge tanning possible. Sticker / sticker residue. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harperperennial, NY
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780060924331ISBN:0060924330
Description: Good with no Dust Jacket; Condition. Name label to front cover interior. Covers lightly rubbed. Interior pages very good, tight binding. 0060924330. 8vo.; 442 pages pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Harper Collins, 1993, Second Printing.
ISBN-13:9780060924331ISBN:0060924330
Description: Octavo, softcover, near fine. Gift qualilty. 442 pp. She makes political struggle immediate, tactile, and personal to represent the life in Africa in all its vivid contradictions. read more
Edition: First edition. Us ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780060168544ISBN:0060168544
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Like new, never read condition-minor scuffing on dust jacke, otherwise clean, tight, without marks or writing of anykind. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 442 p. Audience: General/trade; General/trade. read more
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