The Africa House
Book description
Christina Lamb's The Africa House is the bestselling account of an English gentleman and his African dream.
In the last decades of the British Empire, Stewart Gore-Brown build himself a feudal paradise in Northern Rhodesia; a sprawling country estate modelled on the finest homes of England, complete with uniformed servants,…
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This is the startling, true-life story of Stewart Gore-Brown, who spent his life building a sprawling Victorian mansion in remote bush-land of what was then Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia); The Africa House. Gore Brown emerges as a complex, fascinating character. For most of his adult life life he was obsessed with a long-distance (unconsummated ) affair that he carried out with an aristocratic English woman who was 20 years older - and also his aunt; he ends up marrying her daughter. Meanwhile, in some respects he behaves as the caricature of of a white colonial master, dressing formally for dinner…
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