The Bone Woman

Informationen zum Autor Clea Koff was born in England in 1972, and is the daughter of a Tanzanian mother and an American father. Her childhood was spent in England, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia and the United States. When she was only 23 years old, she was invited to be a forensic expert for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and was the youngest member of the very first team to arrive in Kibuye in 1996. Clea Koff participated in seven UN missions in Rwanda and Former Yugoslavia. She was Deputy Chief Anthropologist in the Tribunal morgue in Kosovo in 2000. Clea Koff is now based in Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia. The Bone Woman was published by Atlantic in 2004. Klappentext A powerful, deeply personal account of a forensic anthropologist's work to uncover the horrors of genocide. Vorwort A powerful, deeply personal account of a forensic anthropologist's work to uncover the horrors of genocide. Zusammenfassung A powerful, deeply personal account of a forensic anthropologist's work to uncover the horrors of genocide.

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Product details

• Authors: Clea Koff, Koff Clea
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2005
• EAN: 9781843541394
• ISBN: 978-1-84354-139-4
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, military history, Memoirs, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), HISTORY / Africa / East, East Africa, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, African History, General and world history, history; africa; military; war; conflict; rwanda