Culture Shock & Canapés: Adventures of a Diplomatic Wife in Africa

di Pamela O'Cuneen (Autore)

Chiselbury Publishing, 2025

War-zones and witchcraft, exotic food and disastrous dinner parties, Culture Shock & Canapés explores the hidden world behind high Embassy walls. A young Australian girl from London struggles to adapt to diplomatic life among the royal courtiers of Swaziland, in post-independence Zimbabwe and in Angola amid the gunfire of the civil war. She accompanies her husband, the striding KJ, on his African postings together with two English bull terriers and a large, redoubtable African tabby cat. As each country unfolds its challenges and discoveries she shares her delight, her wry humour, and keen sense of the ridiculous. In a darker mood we follow KJ in Somalia during the famine and in Rwanda after the genocide. The book will appeal to travellers; to those who have worked overseas and coped with culture shock. The writer, a psychologist, delves into history and sociology, revels in the bizarre and includes recipes collected along the way.

• Autore: Pamela O'Cuneen
• Editore: Chiselbury Publishing
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 320 p.
• Dimensioni: 203 x 133 mm
• EAN: 9781917837224

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