Paul Alan Fox, Mormon missionary and botanist, went to Samoa after his
mother’s death from breast cancer to find a cure in the rainforest. He failed.
But in Nafanua, named after the local forest goddess, he chronicles his
subsequent adventures, trying to save the forest from loggers. By turns,
affecting and sanctimonious. Published by W. H. Freeman, $23.95, ISBN
0716731169.
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