The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman And His African Dream - Hardcover

The true account of an English gentleman and his African dream. By the Lake of the Royal Crocodiles in northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) Major Gore-Brown chose to build the majestic hosue of his childhood fantasies. Here he struggled to create hisown Utopia and find love with an orphan English girl, Lorna, who was less than half his age. THE AFRICA HOUSE tells the touching and ultimately tragic story of the family and their house. From a world of British colonials in Africa, with their arrogance and vision, to the final sad denouement. Leaving the once majestic house abandoned and a forgotten ruin of a bygone age Christina Lamb evokes a story full of passion, adventure and final betrayal.

Christina Lamb has been a foreign correspondent in Africa, Asia and Latin America for the Financial Times and Sunday Times. She has won several major awards including British Press Young Journalist of the Year Award, The Amnesty International Awardand was part of a press team that won an award for its coverage of the BCCI scandal. She has recently been appointed deputy editor of foreign affairs at the Sunday Telegraph.