Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me is a memoir of an extraordinary woman who, as a newlywed, travelled with her husband to German South West Africa, a colony situated just above South African on the Atlantic coast. Here they begin a farm in a quite remote area where t…
Marianne finds she has inherited the ancestral home, maybe because of her curious connection with her adventurous ancestor, Mary Anne Clarissa Purcell. Then she discovers the existence of a sunken treasure ship.
Marianne finds she has inherited the ancestral home, maybe because of her curious connection with her adventurous ancestor, Mary Anne Clarissa Purcell. Then she discovers the existence of a sunken treasure ship.
"What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice stew, gingerbread cake with maple sauce, and dandelion coffee - this was a…