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  • Exit Wounds

    A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars

    par Peter Godwin ...
    From award-winning author Peter Godwin, an “eloquent” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir about his evolving relationships with the women and places that shaped his life.Peter Godwin’s mother is dying.Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now lies on a hospital bed in the partitioned living room of his sister’s London home.Peter has spent his life ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

    A Memoir of Africa

    par Peter Godwin ...
    Award-winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes with pathos and intimacy about Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos—and, along with it, his family's steady collapse—in this unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present.After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Mukiwa

    A White Boy in Africa

    par Peter Godwin ...
    Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas, in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a governement-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa unfolds. The memoir follows Godwin's personal journey from the eve ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Sailor's Life 1920-2001

    Life and times of Commander Peter G Chance RCN (Ret'd) details his childhood and eventual service in the RCNVR and transfer to the RCN. Witness to the Battle of Britain, Battle of the Atlantic, North Sea convoy battles, Japanese invasion of Singapore, Mediterranean combat and the loss of HMCS Skeena. Postwar service saw service as 1st Lt of HMCS Iroquois and Cayuga, the latter seeing combat in the ... En savoir plus

    $6.95 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Fear

    Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe

    par Peter Godwin ...
    Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland.Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country's dictator for 30 years, has finally lost an election. Mugabe's tenure has left Zimbabwe with the world's highest rate of inflation and the ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Three of U.S.

    A New Life in New York

    After a decade in the London media, Joanna Coles and Peter Godwin set sail for a new life in New York. The Three of U.S. is the amusing diary of an affectionate but unconventional and frequently volatile relationship between two competing hypochondriacs about to become parents.He’s preoccupied by the lump on his elbow. She’s trying to determine the accuracy of the DIY pregnancy-testing kit.In ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

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    The Fear

    Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe

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    12 heure 16 min

    Born in what's now called Zimbabwe, journalist Peter Godwin returns to his homeland in 2008 after three decades of Robert Mugabe's brutal economic and human destruction. Hoping to "dance on Mugabe's political grave" in the wake of the tyrant's defeat at the polls, Godwin instead risks his life to secretly chronicle Mugabe's ruthless backlash of torture and terror locals call "The Fear." ". heart ... En savoir plus

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  • Rhodesians Never Die

    The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia, c.1970-1980

    A gripping insider's account of the final decade of white minority rule in Rhodesia, chronicling a society's struggle against the tide of history.In Rhodesians Never Die, Peter Godwin and Ian Hancock offer a nuanced and critical look at the white community's response to the escalating guerrilla war and immense political pressure that defined the 1970s. The authors explore the profound impact of ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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    When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

    A Memoir of Africa

    par Peter Godwin ...
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    12 heure 53 min

    After his father’s heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe’s dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable ... En savoir plus

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    Mukiwa

    A White Boy in Africa

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    14 heure 24 min

    Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas—it is the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written "a classic of its genre" (Sunday Telegraph), a vivid and moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing into chaos.In unforgettable tales of innocence lost under African skies, ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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    Exit Wounds

    A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars

    par Peter Godwin ...
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    8 heure 45 min

    From award-winning author Peter Godwin, an “eloquent” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir about his evolving relationships with the women and places that shaped his life.Peter Godwin’s mother is dying.Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now lies on a hospital bed in the partitioned living room of his sister’s London home.Peter has spent his life ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

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    Scribbling the Cat

    Travels with an African Soldier

    Lu par Lisette Lecat ...

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    9 heure 27 min

    When Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known for being a "tough bugger." Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him; he told Bo: "Curiosity scribbled the cat." Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of ... En savoir plus

    $28.84 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus