Description When Annie returns to Kenya from New York to live among the Great Rift Valley tribes for her work on a children\'s book series, she believes she now understands real physical deprivation and who she is after a harrowing year in the mountains of Ethiopia. "A memorable story of love, loss and Italian cooking, Schrank\'s description.
Author of Women of the West, Children of the West, and Men of the West.
Teeming with historical overview and literary flourish, Longing for Africa reads like Graham Greene plus romance." Cathy Luchetti.
A girl reveals in a glance the story of her desperate hunger, told in words so intense we can smell Africa, from the spices to the rotting fruit. "Each chapter brims with anticipation and springs alive with poignant description.
TV host and producer and author of numerous travel books.
Schrank is lavishly endowed." Richard Bangs.
It\'s a gift with which Ms.
Owning a great story doesn\'t guarantee being able to tell it well.
There\'s flavor, fragrance, wit, perseverance, and pinpoint observational awareness.
Ann Schrank writes like a magical spider, spinning continental webs that ensnare the reader. "This swept me away.
UN Messenger of Peace.
Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute.
D., DBE.
You can\'t go wrong." Jane Goodall, Ph. "With a title like this, of course, I was compelled to read this beautifully written book A fascinating and adventurous life, spiced with danger, and with a love story thrown in.
Driving across the savanna with a Land Rover stuffed with Samburu warriors, dancing with a tribe of fishermen on the dark shore of a crocodile-infested lake in one of the hottest places on earth, and falling passionately in love with an extraordinary Australian pilot who introduces her to the plight of orphaned girls in East Africa, will Annie truly learn to face her deepest fears and find compassion, purpose, and love, or will she head home, heartbroken?Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert, Alexandra Fuller, or Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen).
Description When Annie returns to Kenya from New York to live among the Great Rift Valley tribes for her work on a children\'s book series, she believes she now understands real physical deprivation and who she is after a harrowing year in the mountains of Ethiopia
