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This is the very interesting story of an American surgeon who becomes a missionary to Nepal, taking his wife, also a doctor, and two children with him. The book details the struggles and triumphs on many fronts: trying to bring Western medicine to an under-developed Asian country, trying to bring the message of Christianity to the world of Hinduism and Buddhism, and most of all, trying to fit into a culture that was difficult to understand and to adopt. The story encompasses the first twelve yea
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