Few have ever known the honor and mystique of growing up in the virgin Amazon rainforest.
Their legacy imparts compelling purpose and destiny for those yearning for far more in life today..
Peace that surpassed understanding sustained them throughout innumerable trials.
Perseverance kept them there.
Faith brought them to the forest.
As book 1 of a trilogy of Rain Forest Memoirs, this narrative highlights the intentions and unrestrained power of God, as played out in the lives of a few ordinary messengers.
After three years of unimaginable sacrifice, confidence was finally earned with a Stone Age people group, ushering in a tenuous first contact.
For Paul\'s family, learning to thrive involved harvesting the bounty of the jungle, carving out a primitive base camp on the riverbank, and tolerating a multitude of insects, intense heat, and fatal tropical diseases.
The family\'s hope was to befriend and respect one of those tribes, equipping them holistically to face the onslaught that would inevitably invade their pristine world.
Even so, dozens of remote indigenous nations remained hidden in the vast jungle encompassing an area larger than the continental USA.
History shamefully confirms that so-called civilization conquered or annihilated many original Amazonian cultures.
Survival was precarious due to unending encounters with the anaconda, jaguar, crocodile, and an unknown hostile tribe.
In the late 1950s, Paul Johnson\'s family of six chose to leave the comforts of Canada to disappear into stark isolation, three weeks travel by dugout canoe from the last outpost of Bolivian civilization.
Few have ever known the honor and mystique of growing up in the virgin Amazon rainforest
