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"Lost in the Bush" by Tyan Wyss
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ISBN: 1-58939-952-8, $14.95, softcover;1-58939-953-6, $21.95, hardcover, 312 pages
Mandy Phillips flees to a picturesque African game park after discovering her fiance's infidelity. At odds with her critical brother and mother, miserable in her loneliness, and disgruntled with her life in general, she views a holiday escape as just the tonic she needs. Unfortunately Mandy is prickly, bigoted, and bitter; thus ensuring any vacation is tainted by her own prejudices. After several adventure-filled days, she is brutally accosted by carjackers and in a desperate attempt to survive flings herself from the vehicle only to become hopelessly lost. After a frigid and terror-filled night, Mandy runs across an antagonistic African named Themba Misodzi, a Zimbabwean seeking refuge in South Africa. While he appears to be her ticket back to civilization, Themba is branded in her mind as a chauvinistic, uneducated tribesman she reluctantly has to trust in order to escape her predicament. To him, Mandy is the ultimate bitch; contaminated by her bitterness, overly influenced by the US's aggressive policies, and totally lacking in sympathy for others, especially blacks. As they battle the rough bush back to civilization, both have to learn tolerance and respect in order to survive the cruel elements and the cultural chasm that divides them. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tyan Wyss always longed to be a writer. Educated at the University of California with a Master's Degree in Literature she has been a teacher for 25 years. After working 12 years in California instructing Middle and High School English, she moved overseas with her family to teach in International schools and has lived in Saudi Arabia, Russia and South Africa. Now a full-time writer, she currently resides with her husband Jack and two children in Johannesburg, near the setting for her latest novel. After over a dozen trips to Kruger National Park, the world's largest game reserve, Tyan wondered what would happen if a young, uptight woman from conservative, middle-class America got lost in the vastness of the African bush and thus, this novel, and all the dilemmas it presents, was born. Login to review this product
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