Orinoco Adventure

the long version

JUANITA WAS SICK OF BEING A HOTHOUSE FLOWER! Juanita Alarcon was beautiful and talented. Her family waited on her hand and foot. The guys all worshipped her. Yet sometimes she felt that her life lacked a sense of purpose. When she heard charismatic Tom Goulding describe the Community Health program, she thought she had found one. To her friends' surprise, she joined the group and was assigned to a remote Indian village in the wilds of Venezuela. That would show them all that she was more than a silly social butterfly! A secret part of her hoped that Tom would realize this too.... [text from book jacket]