THE MAN NEXT TO ME (175 pp.)Anthony BarkerHarper ($3.50).
A missionary doctor, according to one Zulu schoolboy, "prays over you before he kills you." It is a fair measure of Anthony Barker's own humility that he concedes some truth to the schoolboy's definition. As an Anglican medical missionary on a Zululand tribal preserve. Barker has indeed prayed for (and among) his charges. As a district surgeon battling impossible disease with often inadequate tools, he admits to times when a life may have been shortened by his fumbling instead of lengthened by his skill.
The Man Next to Me is British Dr. Barker's journal...
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