The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream ~ Christina Lamb

The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream

Lamb, Christina

In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port in the library. All that was missing was a woman to share it with. He adored the beautiful aviatrix Ethel Locke King, but she was almost twenty years his senior, married, and his aunt. Lorna, the only other woman Gore-Brown cared for, was married as well, but years later her orphaned daughter would become Gore-Browne's wife. The story of a colonialist who beat his servants yet supported Rhodesian independence and who was given a chief's burial by the local elders when he died, The Africa House rescues "from oblivion the life story of an astonishing man, an astonishing marriage, and an astonishing house" ( The Spectator ).

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Good condition except the spine is a little faded and the pages have browned slightly

Edition: Penguin 2000

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