CHRISTINA LAMB - THE AFRICA HOUSE - (STEWART-GORE BROWN) 1999 ED PENGUIN SOFTBACK ILLUS PHOTOS

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 had ever cared for, had married another many years earlier. Then he met Lorna's orphaned daughter, so like her mother that he thought he had seen a ghost. It seemed he had found companionship and maybe love - but the Africa house was his dream and it would be a hard one to share. With Primary sources, Bibliography, Archives and periodicals.

1999 Penguin illus with photos, softback well-binded clean white pages, 352 pages, apart from little discolouring to bottom corners of first few end pages, book is in good condition.