KABUMBULU CONGO

ISBN: 9781773709932 Géneros: Sinópsis: Will Wilding recounts the story of his parents and their three  young children living in the Belgian Congo between 1914 and  1935 His father Robert Wilding left his job as a seaman in the  British Royal Navy to begin his work as a missionary while he was  still single He was left alone with a tent in Lubaland one of the most  primitive areas of the region During a year away he met and married  a young Swiss nurse Martha Vuadens and after a brief honeymoon  she joined the work in Kabumbulu  This book tracks the lives of Will39s family as his parents worked  with the local Luban tribe leading building projects setting up bush  hospitals and medical clinics training local assistants creating a  written language starting churches and translating parts of the  Bible They built warm relationships with the surrounding tribes  including the nearby cannibals The book is illustrated with historic  photos of the wildlife and interactions with the local people