1966 ALICE PRINCESS SIWUNDHLA SIGNED Autobio AFRICA MALAWI Nyassa Missionary DJ

Description: ALICE PRINCESS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Written by Alice Princess Siwundhla and published by Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, California. Copyright 1965; this is the second printing, February, 1966—10,000 copies. The author has signed this book “Best Wishes/Alice Princess/Princess Alice Siwunudlhla”. Included with the book is a small flyer entitled “Meet Princess Alice Siwundhla, Author and Lecturer”. The story of a young girl orphaned in Nyasaland, Africa. After a 9,000 mile plane trip to Hollywood, she was unexpectedly confronted with an appearance on the Ralph Edwards show, “This is your Life.” Following this, she was literally besieged with requests to speak for groups in various parts of the US. While she and her husband were working on getting doctorates at UC Santa Barbara, Princess Alice also assumed the role of ambassador of goodwill. She later returned to Africa to do missionary work. From the dust jacket description: “Alice Princess Msumba, a spindly orphan girl, lived in a mud hut near Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi), Africa. The tribespeople ate rats and mice, lived in terror of photography and twin babies, and believed that if a pregnant woman ate salt, she and her whole family would die. Village girls cut patterns on their stomachs and rubbed charcoal into them; they believed that the decorative scars remaining kept them from being ‘slippery like snakes’ and thus unmarriageable.” Then Alice heard the bells of Luwazi Mission School. They led her toward achievement, toward education. Here she began her remarkable ascent that led to Salisbury, London, Los Angeles, and to a surprise appearance on ‘This Is Your Life,’ telecast from Hollywood. In this story you will also meet Lowell and Josephine Edwards, an American couple who adopted Alice and nicknamed her ‘Peaches.’ You will see why Mr. Edwards never found things dull living with ‘two tornadoes in the house at once’ —his wife and Alice. With frankness and often with an African flavor, Alice Princess describes things exactly as she sees and feels them: White people: ‘There are two kinds—the very best and the very worse.’ Her sister: ‘Tillie would have browbeaten a lion or a leopard. I knew right then she’d win out and that we’d go to school.’ Metal fasteners: ‘A new thing invented was a zeeper. I still don’t know how it works, but it does.’ Stage fright: ‘My tongue felt stiff as a mealie cob in my mouth.’ Being excited: ‘I looked down to see if my heart was making why blouse flutter.’ America: ‘Everything is fabulous in America if it is American at all.’ Since coming to the United States, Alice and her husband, Hulme Siwundhla, have graduate from college and gone on to doctoral studies a txt university of California, Santa Barbara. Alice has been the featured speaker before hundreds of schools, service clubs, university groups, and Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish conventions. DESCRIPTION: 168 pages 8 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches Signed, Second printing, hardcover with dustjacket CONDITION: This hard-cover book is in very good condition with a fair dustjacket. The illustrated cloth cover is very clean and shows only slight wear at the corners and spine ends. The interior is excellent with no names, marks, underlining, tears or odor. The paper is slightly toned with age. The hinges and binding are excellent with no loose or missing pages. The dustjacket is mostly complete, but has a large hole in the lower spine area and several places along the edges with old tape repairs. The edges are rubbed and there are several tears (stabilized on the back with thermoplastic archival tissue) and creases. BECAUSE MEDIA RATE SHIPPING IS FREE ON THE BOOKS I SELL, COMBINE THIS WITH OTHER ITEMS FROM MY EBAY STORE. I AM AN EXPERIENCED EBAY SELLER (23+ YEARS) AND SHIPPER WITH 100% (always!--since 1997!) FEEDBACK RATING. ALL ITEMS ARE CAREFULLY AND SECURELY PACKED TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE DANGER OF CRUSHING AND OR WATER/MOISTURE DAMAGE. ALL BOOKS ARE SHIPPED IN STURDY BOXES WITH TRACKING AND DELIVERY CONFIRMATION INCLUDED. I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE ALL OF THE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND SIGNATURES ON BOOKS I SELL.

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