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Author Name: Keith Meadows
Title: BETWEEN THE SUNLIGHT & THE THUNDER
Binding: Hardcover
Type: BOOK
Publisher: SAFARI PRESS
ISBN Number: 095849391X / 9780958493918
Seller ID: 2107609
This historical novel, whilst harrowing, is also insightful & hauntingly beautiful, written by a person whose knowledge & love of Africa bleeds through every page. Few countries have felt the tumult of the ?winds of change? more than Kenya, Congo, & the country once known as Rhodesia. It was former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan who made those words famous in Cape Town in February 1960 when he addressed the South African government. By that time Gil Freeman had already felt the full force of the violence brought on by the changing climate in Africa. Photos; 6x9 inches, 506 pgs.
'Few countries have felt the tumult of the 'winds of change' more than Kenya, Congo, and the country once known as Rhodesia. It was former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan who made those words famous in Cape Town in February 1960 when he addressed the South African government. By that time Gil Freeman had already felt the full force of the violence brought on by the changing climate in Africa. On a farm at the foot of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya, the antigovernment disciples of the Mau Mau slaughtered his parents and sister in February 1953. He was seventeen years old. From a volunteer in the government security forces responding to the brutality of the Mau Mau offensive, to professional hunter, to game warden, Gil remained in Kenya for the next decade before moving on to the Congo and then Rhodesia. Between the Sunlight and the Thunder is a novel that follows Gil's mixed fortunes during twenty-five years of colonial history. It covers a time when Africa was quickly changing and when the winds of change wreaked havoc on both people and wildlife alike. His story is a blend of fact and fiction with disguised and invented characters, all set in three African countries. This historical novel, whilst harrowing, is also insightful and hauntingly beautiful, written by a person whose knowledge and love of Africa bleeds through every page. Woven into the story is the eternal triangle, the consequences of which evolve against the background of one of the most explosive periods in African history.
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