Its A Jungle Out There

Why would someone willingly forego television, amusement parks, shopping malls, and other staples of an American childhood? For Ron Snell, whose parents are missionaries, life in the U.S.A. seems like a concentration camp compared to growing up among the Machiguenga Indians in the jungles of Peru. There, Ron, or “Rani” as the Indians call him, and his siblings learn to tie a house together, eat monkeys and macaws, and make dug-out canoes.