A story with a clear realistic slant of a poor family forced to live in grinding poverty by the social inequalities of present-day Tanzania. The main character is a child who, not knowing his father, struggles for identity and respect.
A Field Guide to the Whales & Seals of the Gulf of Maine,by Steven Katona, David Richardson, and Robin Hazard, (Rockland, Me: Maine Coast Printers, 1975), back book-cover and p. 66.