Nineteen-year-old Tonga Torcida has lived near Mount Gorongosa in Mozambique since birth and has one lifelong dream: to be a tour guide for the Gorongosa National Park. The park became famous in the 1960s, before a war of independence with Portugal and civil war killed almost a million people and devastated much of the park’s wildlife. Today, Greg Carr is committed to the park’s restoration and conservation and plans to engage the local community in the effort by providing jobs to over four hundred individuals and ensuring that the resources yielded by the park are then spread to the surrounding villages. He and his colleagues are taken by Tonga, whose passion for the landscape embodies its future. When renowned biologist E. O. Wilson visits, Tonga is offered the remarkable opportunity to translate for him. The realization of his dream may just inspire Tonga to envision a more significant role for himself in sustaining this remarkable place. Exquisite imagery of lush scenery and majestic animals embellish this powerful portrayal of mutualism between both man and nature and man and fellow man.  ST