New York, NY: Harper Collins (1992)

Limited Edition. Signed.

One of 125 numbered copies signed by the author.

Fine in cloth boards with decoration and gilt lettering on the spine and housed in decorated slip case. Still in shrink wrap.

Near fine in decorated cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine and housed in the publisher's decorated slip case. There is mild shelf wear to the case. The book is fine.

In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political views and opposition to the minority white Government.

The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked by the author in a narrative of detail. She embraces every facet of life in Zimbabwe from the lost animals in the bush to political corruption, from AIDS to a successful communal enterprise created by rural blacks, and notes the kind of changes that can only be appreciated by one who has lived there before.