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This is a good biography;I wavered between three and four stars. My reason for the lower rating is twofold. First, I was irritated by the author's dismissive tone concerning Sheppard's religious beliefs. At one point fairly early in the book, she describes Sheppard hunting to help feed people and comments that he seemed to see feeding people as more important than "filling their minds with Bible verses" as if that was the typical missionary's goal. My other problem was the lack of real historica
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