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9781413415025
Tigres in the Night is the true story of Juan and Amalia Arcos. For almost sixty years they have been lay missionaries, and friends of the Shuar Indians (known to history as Jivaro, the "head-shrinkers of the Amazon"). The Shuar are a proud and were often a dangerous people who were famous for their vendettas, wars so violent that few men died a natural death. The shamans possessed "spirit arrows" they sent to kill enemies and roamed the night as tigres (jaguars), anacondas or deadly diseases. Experience the wonders and challenge of life in the Amazon rain forest.Howe, Bob is the author of 'Tigres of the Night The True Story of Juan and Amalia Arcos, Naturalists and Lay Missionaries in the Jungle of Eastern Ecuador, 1922-2003', published 2003 under ISBN 9781413415025 and ISBN 1413415024.
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