[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] When Rosamond Halsey Carr first arrived in Africa, she didn"t realize that she would spend the rest of her life there. As a young fashion illustrator living in New York City in the 1940s, she seemed the least likely candidate for such a life of adventure. But marriage to a hunter-explorer took her to what was then the Belgian Congo, and divorce left her determined to stay on in neighboring Rwanda as the manager of a flower plantation. In the ensuing half-century, she witnessed the fall of colonialism, the wars for independence, the loss of her friend, Dian Fossey (the woman who struggled to save the gorillas), the relentless clashes of the Hutus and Tutsis, and finally, 1994"s horrific genocide, of which she provides an unparalleled first-hand account. Following the genocide, Carr turned her plantation into a shelter for the lost and orphaned children. This is the epic story of a woman alone in an exotic land, struggling to survive untold hardships only to emerge with an extraordinary love for her adopted country and its people.