A Girl Named Disaster

A Girl Named Disaster

320 pages
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Published: 29 Oct 1996
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ISBN: 9780439471442

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Orchard

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Nhamo is a virtual slave in her African village in 1981. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo runs away to escape marriage to a cruel husband, and spends a year going from Zimbabwe to Mozambique. Alone on the river in a stolen boat, swept into the uncharted heart of a great lake, she battles drowning, starvation, wild animals.Orchard collectible editions have new designs, author prefaces and discussion guides.