The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
A Autobiography, Nonfiction, Travel book. My father couldnt believe what the soldier was telling him in that phone call: Come on, Walter, what do you...
Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through that country’s long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future mapped out for him by his parents for one of adventure and excitement in Europe and the United States. But when Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe launched his violent program to reclaim white-owned land and Rogers’s parents were caught in the cross fire, everything changed. Lyn and Ros, the owners of Drifters–a famous game farm and backpacker lodge in the eastern mountains that was one of the most popular budget resorts in the country–found their home and resort under siege, their friends and neighbors expelled, and their lives in danger. But instead of leaving, as their son pleads with them to do, they haul out a shotgun and decide to stay. On returning to the country of his birth, Rogers finds his once orderly and progressive home transformed into something resembling a Marx Brothers romp crossed...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780307407979 / 307407977
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There were lots of ways to lose your farm. In the beginning it was mostly violent. Now, though, the process had become highly formal, and in many ways more chilling. Ordinary citizens who supported the ruling party and claimed they wanted to farm simply applied to the Registrar of Deeds for a farm and, if approved, got what was called an offer letter. This applicant, known as an A2 farmer, simply drove onto the farm he had been allocated, handed his letter to the farmer if he was still on the land, and told him he was the new owner. Its like winning... What did we do before candles? went the local joke. Electricity. The joke became dated fast, because soon shops ran out of candles. My Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe douglasrogers.org. Douglas Rogers, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
I had never heard of The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe before, I had never been to Africa, and I know very little about farming. But when a neighbor lent me this book, I read it. Not right away, but I read it.The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe is hard to put down. Its exactly as the title suggests: a story of a family, their... From BBC radio 4 - Book of the Week:The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers read by Jack Klaff. Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions. The author tells the story of his parents fight to stay on their backpacker lodge in Zimbabwe despite the political upheaval of the last decade. When he hears the news of the death of the first... The story of a married older couple of white Zimbabweans, the Rogers, who owns a tourist resort, restaurant and bar. Of course the horrible Robert Robert Mugabe is president and runs a mafia type government, responsible for much violence and killing, snatching property from white Zimbabweans all over the country by proclamation, without...
