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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa

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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter GodwinPublish date:4/1/2008Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316018715ISBN-10:316018716UPC:9780316018715Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Africa, MemoirsSize:8.25 x 5.47 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCCPG8WGCW

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa

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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316018715ISBN-10:316018716UPC:9780316018715Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Africa, MemoirsSize:8.25 x 5.47 x 0.98 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCCPG8WGCW
Peter Godwin is the award-winning author of When a Crocodile Eats the Sun and Mukiwa. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, he was educated at Cambridge and Oxford and became a foreign correspondent, reporting from more than 60 countries. Since moving to Manhattan, he has written for National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair. He has taught at Princeton and Columbia and received a...
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