Kathleen Martin

Kamakwie

Finding Peace, Love and Injustice in Sierra Leone

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kathleen Martin spent several weeks in the tiny village of Kamakwie in the interior of Sierra Leone, where she worked with a Canadian medical team. Staying in the grounds of the community hospital, Kathleen had the opportunity to meet with the people of the village. The experience was a revelation. Her mission was to talk to people about their lives, aspirations and their memories of the civil war. She also had a camera though which she developed a visual chronicle. Above all, she was struck by the children. Their resilience, their hopes, their enjoyment of the moments when they could gather and sing and play soccer. Initially, the writer is an observer, but it is not long before the observer is passionately involved. In this vivid and moving account of her time in Kamakwie, Kathleen Martin provides a window into a world far from the comfortable lives of most Americans - a world that through this book will become a colorful, sometimes horrifying, sometimes beautiful reality.

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A chronicle of several weeks spent in the tiny village of Kamakwie, Sierra Leone, speaking to the people about their lives, their aspirations, and their memories of war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Red Deer Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Altersempfehlung: 12 bis 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 179mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780889954724
• ISBN-10: 0889954720
• Artikelnr.: 33774388

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Martin is an editor, writer, and executive director of the Canadian Sea Turtle Network. She is the author of six non-fiction books for children. She lives in Halifax.