Abstract
This agreeably written account of life among the Piraha Indians of Brazil is really three books in one. Missionary-linguist-turned-linguist Daniel L. Everett plaits together an account of his life as a North American family man trying to make a go of things in Amazonia, as a linguist whose paradigm-shaking data have sent ripples through-out and beyond linguistics, and as a missionary who experienced a crisis of faith and walked away from Christianity.