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Original Title:	The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
ISBN:	0307407977 (ISBN13: 9780307407979)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Zimbabwe
Literary Awards:	Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Nominee (2011)

The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe

Douglas Rogers

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 2962 Users | 283 Reviews

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Title	:	The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
Author	:	Douglas Rogers
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	September 22nd 2009 by Crown (first published January 1st 2009)
Categories	:	Cultural. Africa. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Eastern Africa. Zimbabwe. Biography. Travel

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Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit.

Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through that country’s long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future mapped out for him by his parents for one of adventure and excitement in Europe and the United States. But when Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe launched his violent program to reclaim white-owned land and Rogers’s parents were caught in the cross fire, everything changed. Lyn and Ros, the owners of Drifters–a famous game farm and backpacker lodge in the eastern mountains that was one of the most popular budget resorts in the country–found their home and resort under siege, their friends and neighbors expelled, and their lives in danger. But instead of leaving, as their son pleads with them to do, they haul out a shotgun and decide to stay.

On returning to the country of his birth, Rogers finds his once orderly and progressive home transformed into something resembling a Marx Brothers romp crossed with Heart of Darkness: pot has supplanted maize in the fields; hookers have replaced college kids as guests; and soldiers, spies, and teenage diamond dealers guzzle beer at the bar.

And yet, in spite of it all, Rogers’s parents–with the help of friends, farmworkers, lodge guests, and residents–among them black political dissidents and white refugee farmers–continue to hold on. But can they survive to the end?

In the midst of a nation stuck between its stubborn past and an impatient future, Rogers soon begins to see his parents in a new light: unbowed, with passions and purpose renewed, even heroic. And, in the process, he learns that the "big story" he had relentlessly pursued his entire adult life as a roving journalist and travel writer was actually happening in his own backyard.

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I've always been fascinated by Africa, especially after I spent a month in Kenya on a mission trip with my church in 1996. We here in America will sometimes complain about our lives, but it's nothing compared to the poverty I saw while in Kenya. Not even Nairobi is spared; electricity in the capital city is never a guarantee. But at least it's somewhat stable, unlike Zimbabwe, Rogers's home country.When most people think of Africa, we think of white colonists coming over and carving the

The story of a married older couple of white Zimbabweans, the Rogers, who owns a tourist resort, restaurant and bar. Of course the horrible Robert Robert Mugabe is president and runs a mafia type government, responsible for much violence and killing, snatching property from white Zimbabweans all over the country by proclamation, without any rule of law or legal process. The Rogers' son is a journalist who writes their story of endurance, trying to keep their property in the face of serious

Quite a few books have been written in recent years by exiled children of white Zimbabweans. Many if not all, whether they claim to be autobiographical or not are heavily influence by the feelings of the writer about his lost home country and what is happening there. Some find it impossible to jump over the shadow of bitterness to even attempt a balanced view. That is definitely not the case here. I'm not going to repeat the blurb or the descriptions of many others what this book is about. It's

I came across this book while reading the New Yorker's Book Bench blog and after reading the interview with the author I couldn't resist, though I can't say I had much interest or knowledge about Zimbabwe.This book blew me away. I learned so much about the history and culture of Zimbabwe, while being kept on the edge of my seat. To make a long story short, the dictator of Zimbabwe, in an attempt to hide his own incompetence on his country's economic problems decides that the white minority in

The Last Resort is a whirlwind tour through eight years of Zimbabwe's descent from forced evictions of white farmers into the election chaos of 2008. The author visits his parents each year as they adapt to a changing country and struggle to hold onto their small backpacker hotel, Drifter's Inn, in the countryside. Their white farmer neighbors have been kicked out of their homes (some eventually taking refuge at the Inn's cabins), tourism has dried up, and Drifter's is inadvertently reimagined

Wonderful book, I loved it

I'm critical of this work as it purports to be a balanced view of Zimbabwe yet clearly it is not. It does not represent an accurate version of events. There is hypocrisy here and I suggest that it takes a colonial to pick up on it. For example the writer goes out of his way to discuss his Boer roots and the injustices the Boers suffered under the British in South Africa. He describes bad things that happened to white South Africans in South Africa- despite this, and in a memoir of Zimbabweans in