Margaret (Peggy) Wilson, born in England in 1897, was the model of
the new woman, serving as a medical volunteer during World War I,
and later going to medical school to become a doctor of tropical
diseases. In 1926, Peggy traveled to Kathmandu, and four years
later married her friend from medical school who was on assignment
with the British Colonial Medical Service in Tanganyika (modern-day
Tanzania). Peggy and Donald spent the next 30 years working
side-by-side on malaria research and public health, winning
multiple awards in the process. Peggy's daughter Sylvie, born in
1935, recalls World War II in Tanganyika and Kenya, boarding
school, and university at Cambridge. After university, Sylvie
returned home to teach and married a Greek Tanganyikan farmer. They
welcomed independence and the nation of Tanzania, yet struggled
under the impacts it had for expats. While most of the Greek
community left Tanzania, Sylvie and her husband persisted on the
slopes of Kilimanjaro, participating in building new Tanzania.
Drawn from Peggy's unpublished memoir and the letters, diaries and
photographs that Sylvie meticulously collected, this inspiring
mother-daughter memoir spans three continents and a century of
travel, love, defiance, wars, medical research, and revolutions.
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