The Slope of Kongwa Hill

<p>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.</p><p></p><p>The Slope of Kongwa Hill recalls the tough disciplinary and sometimes brutal nature of British boarding schools aggravated by primitive accommodation and the ever-present danger of East Africa's bundu. Fights raids and beatings contrast the grand excitement of animal and reptile confrontations torrential storms locust infestations and other adventures.</p><p></p><p>A face-to-face encounter with a black mamba in the toilet running away from school hunting game for meat a narrow escape from lionesses Boy Scout real-world field training and a forbidden first romance -- all of it combines in a kaleidoscope of once-in-a-blue-moon unforgettable experiences. The Slope of Kongwa Hill is an endearing coming-of-age story in a most unique era and setting.</p><p></p><p>This is the fourth edition and first republishing in the US after three versions released in Canada under a previous ISBN.</p>