Land of a Thousand Hills Author:Rosamond Halsey Carr Land of a Thousand Hills is Carr's thrilling memoir of her life in Rwanda--a love affair with a country and a people that spanned half a century. Following 1994's Hutu - Tutsi genocide, Carr turned her plantation into a shelter for lost and orphaned children. Out of an Africa now vanished into memory and myth, this is her extraordinary story.