Download or read book Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me written by Margarethe von Eckenbrecher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me is a memoir of an extraordinary woman who, as a newlywed, travelled with her husband to German South West Africa, a colony situated just above South African on the Atlantic coast.