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From a comfortable and lucrative medical practice in Montana, the thought of a doctor moving to the bush country of Africa must have seemed like a story from a Hemmingway novel.
Dr. Andrew Wehler, a general practitioner and surgeon, and his wife Doris, made their decision out of a sense of compassion and duty, but it wasn't an easy one. Eight children would have to accompany them. This complicated things considerably. Their three-year saga, which began in 1960, is documented through the letters collected in this book.
Finances and a growing rebellion in the region forced their return in 1963. In many ways the experience left them with a sense of both success and failure. As the doctor expressed it, "Where would we be, if we had never tried?"
For the doctor, his family and countless Africans who benefited, the memories of three years on an African mission, as told through these letters, proved one thing - this adventure was worth the risk. Hemmingway would be proud.
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