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Magan's World:Manchán Magan'stales of a travel addict

These days it is American evangelists one encounters most frequently when travelling. I've come across them organising wonderful projects in Africa, and I was once saved from a terrible death by rabies in the Amazon by an evangelist who was there converting hunter-gatherers for her church back in Louisiana.