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"Contemporary male author who travels across continents with wife and children. on island his daughter leg gets infected with parasite and she goes to Doctor in Vietnam and he tells her not to get local treatment. She sends photo of sore leg to grandmother in states and her dermatologist knows what it is and I think she goes to France for treatment. They also go to New Zealand I remember the author discussing ground birds in New Zealand not having any predators so they were flightless"