Details for Jungle Doctor Panorama

Jungle Doctor Panorama not only marks the production of the millionth book in the Jungle Doctor series and the translation into the fifteenth language, although that were well worth marking.

But it does very much more. It opens a window upon the Africa of today through which we can see for ourselves what is going on. The candid camera, with no attempt at covering up, goes into the homes and almost into the hearts of the people. Not only do we see the change that is sweeping through the continent with the speed of a bush fire, but also the conflict that is naturally consequent upon that change—the conflict between the old and the new, between hopes and fears, between dreams and hard facts. Has the white man outstayed his welcome? Are the Africans able to conduct their affairs entirely alone in the world of today? Is there room still for self-sacrificing service in helping to lead young and emergent Africa in the right way as it shoulders its great responsibility?

Some of the answers to these momentous questions take shape as we look through this photograph-window and meet for ourselves the African peoples in and around the Jungle Doctor Hospitals—that handful of medical outposts, often off the beaten track, staffed by men and women with a double purpose and a single mind. In these hospitals men not only regain their grip on life but find eternal life; not only is light brought back to blind eyes, but men are introduced to One who is the Light of the World.

Every photograph was taken specially for this book and has not appeared elsewhere. Author, publisher, and two photographers converged on East Africa from Australia, Great Britain and the USA with thirteen cameras, and the magnificent array of photographs in this book, the result of that safari, is here presented so that you may share with us the story that they tell.