One Hundred and Four Horses: A Memoir of Farm and Family, Africa and Exile

✍ Scribed by Retzlaff, Mandy

• Book ID: 107820278
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780062204370

✦ Synopsis

There is little in this world that a family cannot endure, if endure they must. For we all have it within us to lose everything, absolutely everything, and still find strength in the most simple, beautiful things.

Pat and Mandy Retzlaff lived a hard but satisfying farming life in Zimbabwe. Working all hours of the day on their sprawling ranch and raising three boisterous children, they savored the beauty of the veld and the diverse wildlife that grazed the meadows outside their dining room window. After their children, the couple's true pride and joy were their horses.

But in early 2001, the Retzlaffs' lives were thrown into turmoil when armed members of President Robert Mugabe's War Veterans' Association began invading the farmlands owned by white Zimbabweans and violently reclaiming the land. Under the threat of death, the family was forced to flee, leaving behind a lifetime's possessions and becoming exiles in the only country they had ever called home....