Under the Camelthorn Tree - The Impact of Trauma on One Family

Zusatztext A sort of Life Force personified! a whirlwind of love and motherhood and science; beautiful woman! brutally true! impossibly brave! impossibly stylish! just plain bloody impossible. Self-taught in science! this poet of the Okavango home-schooled - right through to good universities - four remarkable children in a remote camp surrounded by individually known! radio-tracked lions. After tirelessly working to rehabilitate Botswana's rape victims! her own horrific rape and its aftermath threatened to destroy her life and the family idyll but . . . well! read the whole beautiful book to the end. You'll never see another memoir like this Informationen zum Autor Kate was born in England in 1954 and raised in a theatrical family. Kate left home and school age sixteen, and supported herself working at numberless odd jobs, until she began a successful television and theatre career playing leading roles at the RSC and the National Theatre. In her thirties she read a book that changed her life and she gave up acting to study biology. Between 1976 and 1994, she had six children with whom she has travelled widely. Klappentext A mother's gritty yet often humorous account of family life in Africa, and the consequences of a violent event on each of them. A mother's gritty yet often humorous account of family life in Africa, and the consequences of a violent event on each of them. Zusammenfassung A mother's gritty yet often humorous account of family life in Africa, and the consequences of a violent event on each of them.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Nicholls, Nicholls Kate
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781474609975
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0997-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists, Travel writing, Southern Africa, Social groups: alternative lifestyles, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, TRAVEL / Africa / South / General