The Boy Who Spoke to the Birds

This is an Amazon indigenous story, told by the author's Aymara grandfather in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil. It depicts daily activities and challenges in the life of a remote village along a tributary of the Amazon River. It involves the discovery of a boy-child floating in an eagle's nest after a flood and how he was raised by his Shaman grandfather. The reader will experience and share in the boy's mystical transformation and be amazed by his gift of the spirit in communion with nature.