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The Dust Diaries Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur ~ Sheers writes the biography of his uncle Arthur Cripps who was an early colonial missionary to the Shona people of Rhodesia now Zimbabwe He recounts the struggles the missionary had with the colonial authorities as they stole land and abused the local people
The Dust Diaries Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur ~ The Dust Diaries is the haunting record of Sheerss allconsuming attempt to piece together the luminous fragments of Arthur Crippss remarkable life and to understand the mystery of why he abandoned England for life in the African veldt a journey that takes Sheers from the genteel reading rooms of Oxford Universitys libraries to the parched landscape of contemporary Zimbabwe
THE DUST DIARIES Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps ~ Charting Crippss life from his 1901 arrival in central Mashonaland to his death there in 1952 the author convincingly delineates a portrait of an ascetic subversive more sympathetic to native
The Dust Diaries Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps ~ The Dust Diaries is a fictionalized account of the life of Arthur Shearly Cripps an independent missionary who spoke out for Africans land rights in colonial Zimbabwe Author Owen Sheers describes the work in his Prologue as a fiction based on the facts stories myths and tales I gathered while looking for researching Arthur Cripps
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The dust diaries seeking the African legacy of Arthur ~ Get this from a library The dust diaries seeking the African legacy of Arthur Cripps Owen Sheers At a family reunion in Wales several years ago the poet Owen Sheers stumbled across the mesmerizing story of Arthur Cripps an obscure relative who turned from poetry to missionary work in Africa
The Dust Diaries Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps ~ The Dust Diaries is the haunting record of Sheerss allconsuming attempt to piece together the luminous fragments of Arthur Crippss remarkable life and to understand the mystery of why he abandoned England for life in the African veldt a journey that takes Sheers from the genteel reading rooms of Oxford Universitys libraries to the parched landscape of contemporary Zimbabwe
THE DUST DIARIES by Owen Sheers Kirkus Reviews ~ Poet Sheers a descendant of his subject lustrously recreates the life of Reverend Arthur Cripps poet African missionary thwarted father a man about six leagues ahead of his European contemporaries THE DUST DIARIES Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps by Owen Sheers BUY NOW FROM
Reading Zimbabwe The Dust Diaries ~ Arthur Cripps left his native England in a ship set for southern Rhodesia in 1900 He chose to exile himself from the Anglican church factions of which branded him a heretic and burned down his churches All the while he hid the soulracking secret of what had driven him from England into the heart of Africa
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