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Author
Series
Rani adventures volume 2
Publisher
Hannibal Books
Publication Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
My high school years were like a television series, Snell writes. Hiking into the middle of the Amazon jungle to build an airstrip and nearly starving to death. Greeting the president of Peru as he stepped out of his chopper to visit our school. Spoon feeding water to feverish Machiguengas and helping bury the ones who died. I never thought it unusual to have a 16-foot anaconda slithering around in our science class. Or going barefoot to school, getting...
Author
Series
Rani adventures volume 2
Publisher
Hannival Books
Publication Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
I wouldn't trade my childhood for any other. Conceived in the Amazon rainforest, I learned to walk and talk among the Machiguenga Indians who, to this day, I call Rani. Ron's life and adventures begin in this fast-paced, riotous romp through the Amazon jungle. The Machis become his first babysitters and friends who laugh at his log rides down rampaging rivers and catch exotic pets for him as he grows up truly "in the middle of nowhere". A death-defying...
3) Jungle calls
Author
Series
Rani adventures volume 3
Publisher
Hannibal Books
Publication Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
It was 7:30 at night. Standing in inky black jungle, we were hundreds of miles from the nearest lightbulb. The call of insects and frogs shrilled in our ears. Somewhere nearby, we knew, were Indians who killed anyone who ventured into their territory. What we didn't know was whether they were coming to kill us. Even so, after almost a year in the concrete jungles of Chicago at the Moody Bible Institute, there was no place else I'd rather be. I was...