Above you will see price and availability details for Green Oranges on Lion Mountain: The Accidental Optimist by Emily Joy from the leading UK book stores.
To allow you to quickly compare prices, the stores are arranged in order of delivered price, cheapest first. Click on a store name to buy this book or to view further details.
Books Related to Green Oranges on Lion Mountain Emily Joy - ISBN: 1903070295
so easy to read even though I knew little of Sierra Leone - Rated
Great! I really enjoyed this. I cheated really buying it as a present for my mum for Christmas knowing I really wanted to read it. We both finished it really quickly and surprisingly my mum enjoyed it as much as me.
I chose it because I wanted to understand a little more about Sierra Leone, even before its prominence with Leonardo diCaprio's 'Blood Diamonds' movie and because it is written by a former volunteer with VSO and I too am a former volunteer but in another part of the world.
It was so readable, gave a great idea of the humour and resilience of the people and the humility, adventourness and humanity of the author who had been a doctor in Sierra Leone in the years immediately prior to the bloody war.
Why not 5 stars? Clearly I am a hard marker!!
refreshingly honest,with gentle humour - Rated
brilliant read! Powerful,yet gentle, joyful yet heartbreaking. i bought this book for my 3 close friends and all were delighted with it and have since recommended it to their book clubs. This is a book about travel with the delicaces of human nature, and atrocities of life, wriiten first hand. I commend people like our Emily Joy, and urge you to read it.I am a better person for it,the inspiration of this wonderful persons ability to care and keep caring, will remain always.
a refreshingly good travel book - Rated
This is a well above average piece of travel writing from an author that should try her hand at more. Green Oranges has just the right blend of wit and black humour to keep it rolling along and Joy's ability to win you over very quickly makes it all the more effective when she tackles the darker side of her experiences. If you can ignore the terrible cover then you are in for a nice surprise.
Brigit Jones with a scalpel and rebels - Rated
This is such a fun read that you don't notice when things start to get serious, by which time you're hooked. Dr Em is so full of human weakness that you just have to cheer when she manages to limp through each inevitable disaster. You wonder how she survives, never mind her patients. But somehow she pulls it off, leaving you laughing and crying and thinking perhaps you might just jump on a plane too. She uses lots of dialogue so you feel you're in Africa with her friends. And you care what happens to them when Sierra Leone is plunged into tragedy. The human spirit will never be crushed.
