Swimming in the CongoFollows the childhood experiences of seven-year-old Grace Berggren, the daughter of foreign missionaries living on the banks of the Congo River, and her growing attachment to the African landscape and the people both indigenous and foreign, who surround her. |
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Prologue | 1 |
Simbas in Little America | 29 |
Old Stories Old Songs | 49 |
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