African Business, March 1st, 2000
By Helen Attwater
[pounds]16.99 Sidgwick & Jackson
ISBN 0-283-06336-X
Whether or not Helen Attwater had ever visited Africa before is not made clear in this book, but when she flew into Brazzaville to join her future husband Mark, it is obvious that little in her experience had prepared her for the chaos of the country that awaited her. She was a trained medical nurse while Mark had previously been a zookeeper at John Aspinall's private Howletts Zoo.
They had both accepted an invitation from John Aspinall to set up a gorilla sanctuary in the Congo. Initially they were to establish a gori...
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