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The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood ” For years the Cooper daughters—Helene, her sister Marlene, and Eunice—blissfully enjoyed the trappings of wealth and advantage. It was also an African childhood, filled with knock

The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood


Title:The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
Author:Helene Cooper
Rating:4.58 (381 Votes)
Id Book:0743266250
Format Type:Paperback
Number of Pages:354 Pages
Publish Date:2009-07-21
Type File:PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub


Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.Helene Cooper is “Congo,” a descendant of two Liberian dynasties—traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was filled with servants, flashy cars, a villa in Spain, and a farmhouse up-country. It was also an African childhood, filled with knock foot games and hot pepper soup, heartmen and neegee. When Helene was eight, the Coopers took in a foster child—a common custom among the Liberian elite. Eunice, a Bassa girl, suddenly became known as “Mrs. Cooper’s daughter.” For years the Cooper daughters—Helene, her sister Marlene, and Eunice—blissfully enjoyed the trappings of wealth and advantage
Liberia was different because it was independent. This is a fascinating selection of letters written by Charles Darwin, a man who is summed up by Stephen Jay Gould in the Foreword as being "radical in his scientific ideas, liberal in his political and social views, and conservative in personal lifestyle"

The letters in this volume cover the period stretching from his childhood up to the publication of "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, including letters sent while on his voyage round the world on the Beagle. In defence of Kapuscinsky, I must say that we cannot compare the access of information that the Polish reporter had at the time, with what we have now. We can here read the letter/note he wrote to Emma asking her to see to it that the 1844 essay was published in the event of his death.

The letters in this book, taken together with Darwin's notebooks and the two essays/sketches, show beyond question that all the key ideas that Darwin made public in 1859 in "On

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