The Last Resort: a Memoir of Zimbabwe

✍ Scribed by Rogers, Douglas

• Publisher: Short Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 213 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: London, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe.
• ISBN: 1907595112

✦ Synopsis

Travelogue, adventure yarn, political intrigue and tragedy, The Last Resort is a love story about the author and his homeland, Zimbabwe ... In The Last Resort, journalist Douglas Rogers tells the eye-opening, harrowing and, at times, surprisingly funny story of his parents' struggle for survival in war-torn Zimbabwe. For many years, Lyn and Ros Rogers were the owners of Drifters, a famous game farm and backpacker lodge in the eastern mountains. But when President Robert Mugabe launched his violent land reclamation programme, everything changed. The Rogers found their home under siege, their.;Cover; Title Page; Praise; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of Contents; ONE : Phoning Home; TWO : If We Build It, They Will Come; THREE : Where Is Your Identity?; FOUR : Frogs and Spiders; FIVE : Prostitutes Demand Payment in Diesel; SIX : The Rogers Cartel; SEVEN : The Refugees; EIGHT : The Old Boer Wants His Cattle Back; NINE : Friends and Neighbours; TEN : The Political Commissar; ELEVEN : Miss Moneypenny; TWELVE : The Rally; THIRTEEN : The Helicopters; FOURTEEN : Entering the Castle; FIFTEEN : The Soldier; SIXTEEN : Diamonds; SEVENTEEN : Endgame; EPILOGUE; GLOSSARY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

✦ Subjects

Zimbabwe