A Bicycle, A Chess Set, an African River

What makes Pat Simmons, a retired engineer, give up his comfortable middle class living and wade across a crocodile infested river with a bicycle strapped to his back, in order to teach chess to schoolchildren at the Mission station?

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‘Strangely all around him were hippos paddling, their ears twitching, seemingly oblivious to his presence – It was the strangest sight…. Occasionally the hippos would snort and rise to the surface yawning with a display of canine tusks that could snap that makoro in half with ease, yet that lone ishing boy kept retrieving his wicca nets without a care in the world.’