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Read for my Around the World in 80 Books challenge (Tanzania)
This book felt like two separate writing projects that did not quite coalesce. I enjoyed how Tucker describes the simple pleasures and everyday frustrations of ex-pats living in Tanzania and Togo, but I wish the dubious international adventures of the writer's safari guide/spy/crocodile hunter husband had not been quite so prominent. Stiil, worth reading for the glimpses into life in Arusha (as well as Togo and Sierra Leone) and Sara T ...more
This book felt like two separate writing projects that did not quite coalesce. I enjoyed how Tucker describes the simple pleasures and everyday frustrations of ex-pats living in Tanzania and Togo, but I wish the dubious international adventures of the writer's safari guide/spy/crocodile hunter husband had not been quite so prominent. Stiil, worth reading for the glimpses into life in Arusha (as well as Togo and Sierra Leone) and Sara T ...more
An enjoyable and informative memoir of a blended family's life in Tanzania, altho much of the book focuses on the husband's previous doings in West Africa before he married. That portion would make an entertaining book of its own.
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