The Ponds of Kalambayi
Mike Tidwell. Lyons Press, $16.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-1-55821-447-7
Tidwell presents his memoir of a two-year sojourn as a Peace Corps worker among a remote tribe in Zaire. (May)
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Reviewed on: 04/29/1996
Genre: Nonfiction
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