Journey to Guyana

The book description above is excellent - it covers the circumstances, the extent and the intent of the book perfectly - so well that there is little left to say on the content of the book.
The writing is very good. It is well balanced - the right amount of history, of humour and of anecdotal details. Two years is a good length of time to spend in a small country, and to be able to take in enough, and reflect on the experiences sufficiently to write a book with sufficient depth and understanding of a people and a place. This is a book well worth a read.
Just a quick quote to show a little of the authors type of humour. Having been upriver at a quarry and a timber yard, investigating sources of materials for the bulk sugar terminal her husband was in charge of building, they were returning downriver, and it happened to be their honeymoon. (P100)
In silence we lay and watched the full moon, yellow and huge, as befitted its vast surroundings. Never, I thought as I looked across the waters of the Mazaruni and Essequibo, wide here like the sea, and gazed at the full moon and infinity of stars and smelled the sweet soft smell of frangipani and night orchids, never would there be another night like this; never, if we lived to be a joint two hundred, could we have such a perfect wedding anniversary. I turned from the stars and looked instead at the profile beside me, which was also gazing intently at the sky, and breaking the silence at last, I murmured, ‘what are you thinking?'‘Well,' he said slowly and thoughtfully, ‘I was wondering how they got that Fergusson tractor up to the timber reserve.'
The book is packed with lots of this sort of thing.