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lushoto, tanzania / 29.nov.1999
When he found out that I was American, the guy in the tourist office said, "Oh, do you know Carter?" Evidently Carter Coleman came to Lushoto a few years back, built a stone house on this precipice, and flew his paraglider, enlisting the help of trained birds of pray to catch the "perfect thermal." He then went back to the States and wrote a novel, the Booklist plot summary of which follows:
Rutledge Jordan is a Peace Corps volunteer, motivated more by efforts to flee
his role in a failed love affair than humanitarian feelings for the people of
the Tanzanian village where he is assigned. Jordan is haunted by guilt for past
infidelities and seeks redemption in good works and the adoption of a fledgling
eagle. Confused emotions and motives lead to his seduction of a young Tanzanian
girl, who is about to undergo female circumcision before her pending marriage to
a powerful East African sultan. Jordan rescues the girl and flees with her in a
perilous journey to release the fully grown eagle and deliver the girl to a new
life at a school in Kenya. The peril is heightened by Jordan's disregard of
custom and local politics as he offends and betrays a host of vengeful, shady
characters.
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