In January 1952, a sensitive young boy named Tony Edwards moves with his parents from postwar London to Tanganyika (now Tanzania). He goes to a boarding school in Kongwa, a remote, barren region just south of the Masai Steppe. Several hundred miles from home, Tony spent his formative years in a derelict townsite that had been the base for a massive, postwar agricultural program.The Slope of Kongwa Hill recalls the tough, disciplinary, and sometimes brutal nature of British boarding schools, aggravated by primitive accommodation and the everpresent danger of East Africas bundu. Fights, raids, and beatings contrast the grand excitement of animal and reptile confrontations, torrential storms, locust infestations, and other adventures.A facetoface encounter with a black mamba in the toilet, running away from school, hunting game for meat, a narrow escape from lionesses, Boy Scout realworld field training, and a forbidden first romance all of it combines in a kaleidoscope of onceinabluemoon, unforgettable experiences. The Slope of Kongwa Hill is an endearing, comingofage story in a most unique era and setting.This is the fourth edition and first republishing in the US, after three versions released in Canada under a previous ISBN.

Binding: Paperback;436 pages; Publisher: Emissary Publishing; Classification: N/A; Weight: 644.81 g; Dimensions: N/A

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