We Will Be Jaguars

Nenquimo grew up Waorani in the Ecuadorian Amazon, was taken into an evangelical mission school as a girl, and later led the legal action that protected half a million acres of rainforest from oil drilling. Written with her husband Mitch Anderson, the memoir moves between childhood, conversion, disillusion and organising, and is unsparing about missionaries and extraction alike. A first-hand account from inside a fight usually reported from outside.