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Informationen zum Autor Peter Godwin is an award winning author and journalist. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, he studied law and international relations at Cambridge and Oxford. He worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa and Eastern Europe for The Sunday Times of London . He was founding presenter and writer of Assignment/Correspondent, BBC TV's premier foreign affairs program. He now lives in Manhattan and contributes regularly to National Geographic , New York Times Magazine , and BBC Radio, among others. Klappentext Growing up in Rhodesia in the 1960s, Peter Godwin inhabited a magical and frightening world of leopard-hunting, lepers, witch doctors, snakes and forest fires. As an adolescent, a conscripted boy-soldier caught in the middle of a vicious civil war, and then as an adult who returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cover the bloody transition to majority black rule, he discovered a land stalked by death and danger. 'The life of the white boys and girls in colonial Africa has vanished now, but this fine and powerful memoir is a marvellous contribution to its literature' William Boyd, Sunday Times 'His memoir of those terrible years is a vivdly scary adventure story, as well as a poignant portrait of a bitter moral dilemma...superb' Graham Lord, Daily Telegraph 'I have no hesitation in saying that Mr Godwin's book is a classic' Anthony Daniels, Sunday Telegraph 'Remarkable' Doris Lessing, Observer The award-winning memoir of a white boy growing up in Rhodesia as it went through a bloody transition to majority rule Zusammenfassung The award-winning memoir of a white boy growing up in Rhodesia as it went through a bloody transition to majority rule
