Catherine Buckle
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Catherine "Cathy" Buckle is a writer and blogger,[1] born 1957, in Southern Rhodesia, which is now modern-day Zimbabwe. Her blog, "Letters from Zimbabwe",[2] includes print, photos, personal entries, and broadcast media outlets. She writes stories about wildlife, conservation, flora and fauna of her country.
Writings
Buckle has written four children's books, one of which, “The Animals of the Shashani.” was in 2018 selected by ZIMSEC as a set book for Form 1 and 2 English Literature students in Zimbabwean schools.[2]
One of her memoirs, African Tears, chronicles the personal story of the government-approved invasion of her farm, which was bought after Zimbabwean independence. African Tears was serialized in The Sunday Times, Femina magazine and, Rapport newspaper.[3]
In the book, Innocent Victims – Rescuing the stranded animals of Zimbabwe's farm invasions, Buckle informs readers of the Zimbabwe Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's rescues of animals during the farm invasions.
Bibliography
- African Tears. The Zimbabwe Land Invasions. (2001)
- Beyond Tears. Zimbabwe's tragedy. (2002)
- Innocent Victims – Rescuing the stranded animals of Zimbabwe's farm invasions. (2009)
- Imire. The Life and Times of Norman Travers. (2010)
- Can you Hear the Drums. Letters from Zimbabwe 2000 - 2004. (2013)
- Millions, Billions, Trillions. Letters from Zimbabwe 2005 - 2009. (2014)
- Sleeping Like A Hare (2015)
- Rundi. Hand Rearing baby Elephants. (2016)
- When Winners are Losers Letters from Zimbabwe 2009 - 2013. (2018)
- Finding Our Voices Letters from Zimbabwe 2013 - 2017. (2018)
- Surviving Zimbabwe (2020)[4]
References
External links
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- 1957 births
- White Rhodesian people
- Rhodesian people of British descent
- Zimbabwean women farmers
- Zimbabwean non-fiction writers
- Writers from Harare
- Living people
- Zimbabwean women children's writers
- Zimbabwean children's writers
- 20th-century Zimbabwean women writers
- 20th-century Zimbabwean writers
- 21st-century Zimbabwean women writers
- 21st-century Zimbabwean writers
- University of Zimbabwe alumni
- 21st-century farmers
- 21st-century women farmers
- 20th-century women farmers
- Rhodesian farmers
- African bloggers