To an Island in Africa
Child, Vivian Usborne
Fifty years ago in Africa, she bathed in crocodile-infested waters, lived for months withoutplumbing, electricity, or running water, slept on a cot inches above roosting bats, fell asleep tothe beating of drums and the howling of hyenas, sampled lakefly cakes and fried locusts, andadministered medical examinations to thousands of tribespeople.In 1951, Vivian Mary Usborne, a 31-year-old English doctor posted to remote areas ofTanzania, worked a...