An Affair With Africa: Expeditions and Adventures Across a Continent

A family's and entemologist's travels through Africa, especially Congo. In June 1960, a young faculty wife named Alzada Kistner and her husband David, a promising entomologist, left their 18-month old daughter in the care of relatives and began what was to be a four month scientific expedition in the Belgian Congo. Three weeks after their arrival, the country was gripped by a violent revolution trapping the Kistners in its midst. Despite having to find their way out of numerous life-threatening situations, the Kistners were not to be dissuaded.

Hardcover. English. Island Press/Shearwater Books. 1998. ISBN: 1559635312. 246 pp. Good with dw. Book No: 2003096