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Gettleman Jeffrey - Love Africa A Memoir Of Romance War And Survival - Paperback
Gettleman Jeffrey - Love Africa A Memoir Of Romance War And Survival - Paperback
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Description: From Jeffrey Gettleman a Pulitzer Prize - winning New York Times journalist comes a passionate revealing story about finding love and finding a calling set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world. A seasoned war correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times fulfilling a teenage dream. At nineteen Gettleman fell in love twice. On a do - it - yourself community service trip in college he went to East Africa a terrifying exciting dreamlike part of the world in the throes of change that imprinted itself on his imagination and on his heart. But around that same time he also fell in love with a fellow Cornell student the brightest classiest most principled woman he d ever met. To say they were opposites was an understatement. She became a criminal lawyer in America; he hungered to return to Africa. For the next decade he would be torn between these two abiding passions. A sensually rendered coming - of - age story in the tradition of Barbarian Days Love Africa is a tale of passion violence far - flung adventure tortuous long - distance relationships screwing up forgiveness parenthood and happiness that explores the power of finding yourself in the most unexpected of places.
Title: Love Africa A Memoir Of Romance War And Survival
Author(s): Gettleman Jeffrey
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062284105
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 5/15/2018
Category: Travel Writing
Description: From Jeffrey Gettleman a Pulitzer Prize - winning New York Times journalist comes a passionate revealing story about finding love and finding a calling set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world. A seasoned war correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times fulfilling a teenage dream. At nineteen Gettleman fell in love twice. On a do - it - yourself community service trip in college he went to East Africa a terrifying exciting dreamlike part of the world in the throes of change that imprinted itself on his imagination and on his heart. But around that same time he also fell in love with a fellow Cornell student the brightest classiest most principled woman he d ever met. To say they were opposites was an understatement. She became a criminal lawyer in America; he hungered to return to Africa. For the next decade he would be torn between these two abiding passions. A sensually rendered coming - of - age story in the tradition of Barbarian Days Love Africa is a tale of passion violence far - flung adventure tortuous long - distance relationships screwing up forgiveness parenthood and happiness that explores the power of finding yourself in the most unexpected of places.
Title: Love Africa A Memoir Of Romance War And Survival
Author(s): Gettleman Jeffrey
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062284105
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 5/15/2018
Category: Travel Writing