Douglas Rogers is an award-winning journalist and travel writer. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Travel & Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the London Times. He was born and raised in Zimbabwe and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.

White farmers all over Zimbabwe were being thrown off their farms and fleeing, but Douglas Rogers' parents found another way to survive Mugabe's rule. An excerpt from his new memoir, The Last Resort.