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product_id: 55706154
title: "Letters from Wankie: A Place in Colonial Africa"
brand: "rainbow books incorporated"
price: "€ 38.58"
currency: EUR
in_stock: true
category: "Paperback"
url: https://www.desertcart.sk/products/55706154-letters-from-wankie-a-place-in-colonial-africa
store_origin: SK
region: Slovakia
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# Letters from Wankie: A Place in Colonial Africa

**Brand:** rainbow books incorporated
**Price:** € 38.58
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Letters from Wankie: A Place in Colonial Africa by rainbow books incorporated
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Letters from Wankie "Letters from Wankie" is a unique true story based on the collection of some 500 air letters the author, British-born Patricia Friedberg, wrote home to England in the mid-1950s, during the first two years of her marriage to her South African physician husband. Together the newlyweds moved to the remote mining town of Wankie in the far northwest corner of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where he was employed as a colliery doctor. More than 50 years later, after her mother passed away, Patricia found among her mother's papers the bundle of air letters neatly tied and safely stored. Reading through the collection it was evident that the letters contained an in...

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*Last updated: 2026-03-12*