The Primeval Forest by Albert Schweitzer, William H. Foege
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ISBN: 9780801859588
Johns Hopkins University Press, 31 July 1998
Paperback, 240 pages
"There, in this sorry world of ours, goes a great man."―Albert Einstein, on Albert Schweitzer
In July of 1913, thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor Albert Schweitzer gave up his position as a respected professor at the University of Strasbourg and celebrated authority on music and philosophy in order to go as a physician to French Equatorial Africa (present-day Gabon). The Primeval Forest is Schweitzer's own fascinating story of these eventful years―a thrilling tale of his amazingly successful attempt to practice modern medicine and surgery in the face of wild elephant raids, marauding leopards, famine, an flood―a story rich in human interest and high drama