Phillips, Mrs Marjory O.

Don't Step on the Crocodile combines a first-person adventure narrative with a healthy dose of geography, history, and social and cultural anthropology. The author along with a group of young American teachers traveled up the Nile and overland by rail from Egypt to Sudan and Uganda in the summer of 1946 just one year following the close of the Second World War. The book affords an in-depth look at life in East Africa in that period of its development. The book contains several photos taken by the author and her friends on their epic journey. Marjory O'Brien Phillips first teaching job followin...