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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)

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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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Title	:	The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
Author	:	Douglas Rogers
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First 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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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

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

Wonderful book, I loved it

From BBC radio 4 - Book of the Week:The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers read by Jack Klaff. Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions. The author tells the story of his parents fight to stay on their backpacker lodge in Zimbabwe despite the political upheaval of the last decade. When he hears the news of the death of the first white farmer, Rogers is concerned for his parents safety but when he returns home to visit them, nothing has prepared him for what he finds.

Dramatic and real accounting of the decline of Zimbabwe and the tenacity of the Rogers, white farmers who struggle to hold on to their home. The story is told through their son, Douglas Rogers, who grew up in Zimbabwe. If you have read and enjoyed Peter Godwin's story of growing up in Zimbabwe in the book "Mukiwa" and then the bittersweet story of seeing the country his grew up in and love fall about in the book "When the Crocodile Ate the Son", also by Peter Godwin, you will also enjoy "The

Zimbabwe "An edgy, roller-coaster adventure, it is also a story about how to survive a corrupt Third World dictatorship with a little innovation, humor, bribery, and brothel management."

This is an excellent book about extraordinary people living through unbelievable times in Zimbabwe. Over the last few years I have read a number of novels set in that country in the post independence period which have been deeply moving in their depiction of the evolution of that country and the effect on the lives of its people; but none of them delivered their story with the power of this one.It is well written in a journalistic style as opposed to a literary one, which is not meant to demean