Thrill to the true life adventures of an American missionary that dared to brave the perils of the Amazon Rainforest to work with the indigenous YanomamÖ in remote Venezuela. From roping tapir and counting coup on a jaguar to the high-pitched tension of a first contact that got a little too close for comfort, join Mike in the jungle and feel the joy and heartbreaks that arise in working with a primitive people. Discover what it takes to translate the Good News into a previously unknown tongue and encounter life and death in the depths of the Amazon. Michael Dawson was born in the middle of the Amazon jungle, the fifth child of early missionaries who settled their family near TamaTama, Venezuela. Here he has spent his life living and working among the native YanomamÖ and continues to serve God with his wife, Keila, their three boys, and two daughters. Used Book in Good Condition