Jungle Medicine

Death is walking the Amazon. The drums have been pounding for days. And fivemedical students are headed straight into its path.Chosen for a ninety-day Medical Studies Abroad Program, five Harvardstudents set out for the Peruvian rainforest to study tropical disease. Thentheir boat runs aground on a sandbar, their crew abandons them, and they aretaken captive by an Aguaruna village convinced the outsiders brought a curse ofdeath. Kneeling before the fire, they are moments from execution.A mysterious illness has already taken the chief's beloved wife. Now hisonly daughter, Princess Adalia, is slipping away. The students' medicine may bethe only thing that can save her life, and their own.Can modern science and the shaman's jungle remedies work together before thedisease reaches the next village? Who, or what, is carrying it? And why arearmed men preparing to wipe out an entire people?For Nathan Carmichael, a missionary's son who walked away from his faith,survival may depend on the God he knew as a boy.Drawn from the author's years as a medical missionary in the Amazon, JungleMedicine launches the Amazon Adventure series with pulse-pounding stakes,cultures in collision, and hope that shines in the darkest places. Step intothe jungle and begin the adventure today.