Jim L. reviewed on 8/24/2006 + 38 more book reviews

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Lewis Burke, a New York salesman, is one of the passengers aboard an airliner that crash lands in the jungles of the Congo and is taken over by Congolese rebels. In a desperate moment he chooses escape over being held hostage and flees into dense jungle with only the clothes on his back. Thus begins a two-sided story, one a riveting adventure of survival in equatorial Africa, the other a frustrating struggle by his wife, Helen, to find him in the confusion of African politics and culture and not give in to her growing despair. Beautifully written, The Curve of the World, is a gripping story of loss, love, self-discovery and healing.

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