Clair Cholajda

Last Stop Safari Shop (eBook, ePUB)

An epic tale of healing in the African bush

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Evelyn walked towards the cluster of flame lilies, each one a cup of flickering scarlet, edged with trickling gold, growing up from the deep, rich, red African soil. She bent down gently and stretched her arms around them, just able to touch her fingers together, and breathed in deeply. The smell of green ... only here on this land.'

The Last Stop Safari Shop is a beautiful ode to Africa. It is set in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania in the late 1980's and 1990's.

In the late 1980's and early 1990's three young people, whose life experiences and personalities couldn't be more different, and each of whom carry deep emotional scars travel to Tanzania.

Interior designer, Marius, discovers that decorating luxury safari lodges in the heat and dust and sometimes torrential rains in remote Africa is very different from the luxury homes in Cape Town.

Astrid, a physiotherapist, has finally fulfilled her dream of flying to Africa, leaving behind her cold psychoanalyst parents in Switzerland. To her dismay, she discovers that not only do wild animals not line the streets, but to go on safari is way beyond her budget.

Evelyn, a war widow, returns to Zimbabwe after eight lonely years in England, to help with her family's rhino conservation. She is unprepared for what unfolds, as her senses return in the warmth of the African sun.

By digging deep and finding their inner resources, paths cross, and unlikely friendships are formed. Under the transformative power of the 'Africa-ness' of Africa, all three individuals begin to heal and embrace their lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Porcupine Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781928455028
• Artikelnr.: 53705958

Autorenporträt

Clair Cholajda was born in Kitwe, Zambia. Clair studied at Rhodes University and majored in English Literature, Sociology and Psychology and later completed a Masters in Clinical Psychology at the University of Natal. After her first stint at university she spent four years working her way around the world, doing many lousy jobs and many that she was ill-equipped for. She got a job in Greece on a sailing yacht, cooking for charter guests. Clair had never sailed and seldom cooked. She hiked in Nepal, fell in love in Bali, sailed down the Nile in a felucca, lived in San Francisco, picked avocados in Israel and drank rum in the Caribbean.

In 2005 Clair and her husband and their two children went to East Africa on safari. Her trip inspired the writing of this novel. Clair fell in love with the African bush and was deeply moved by the world of safari and conservation and set up an internet-based company selling safaris, "the Tas-Tanz Connection". She also has a small private clinical psychology practice in Hobart, Tasmania.