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Mud Between Your Toes
A Rhodesian Farm
2016
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4.22
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Glimpse a life filled with contradictions, discoveries, and passion in Peter Wood's fascinating new memoir, Mud Between Your A Rhodesian Farm. This is a powerful story about a teenage boy growing up during the Rhodesian Bush War. Peter Wood is an African. He is white, but he also holds a Chinese passport. And he is also gay. Growing up during the 1970s on his family's farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Peter was swiftly introduced to a harsh world in which friends and relatives were murdered in ambushes—and the line between blacks and whites was drawn in blood. As travel bans and UN sanctions caused a deepening chasm between his country and the rest of the world, Peter struggled with his identity as a white Rhodesian and later in life, when living in London, he nurtured his skills as a photographer—and finally found the courage to come out as gay. Now a twenty-year resident of Hong Kong and an official Chinese national, Peter is arguably the only white, gay, African man in China. But his wildly entertaining anecdotes delve much deeper than that superficial—yet admittedly fascinating—label. These stories, based largely on Peter's childhood diary entries, offer insight into the universal human from tragedies and triumphs to catastrophes and, perhaps most importantly, joy.

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Peter Wood
Peter Wood
Author · 2 books

Peter Wood was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1962. He grew up on a farm called M’sitwe in the Lomagundi area of the country, near Umvukwes, spending the best part of his childhood running barefoot through the untamed bushveld with his brother and sister Duncan and Mandy. It was a wild part of the world and the children were often gone from dusk to dawn, exploring the 13,000-acre property, climbing rocky kopjes, exploring caves and camping along the rivers. Despite a civil war that ravaged the land until the end of white rule in 1980, these were salad days and many of Peter’s and his family’s adventures are described in Mud Between Your Toes. Peter went to Umvukwes Junior School and then Prince Edward High School in Salisbury (now Harare). After completing oneyear in the Rhodesian Light Infantry he left the country of his birth and moved to London, then on to Hong Kong where he now lives. He has been granted Chinese nationality and a Hong Kongpassport, but still considers himself African to the core.

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