Born in New York, Wendy Veevers-Carter left for Africa at twenty-one, married an Englishman she met there and lived with him on an island in the Seychelles for fifteen years. After...view moreBorn in New York, Wendy Veevers-Carter left for Africa at twenty-one, married an Englishman she met there and lived with him on an island in the Seychelles for fifteen years. After his death, she married the man she had first been engaged to, and went with him to Indonesia and Burma. They now divide their time between a remote cottage in Wales and another in Vermont.view less