Like his great-grandfather, a Victorian missionary, Charles Montgomery heads to Melanesia, where the smashup of Christianity and indigenous beliefs has produced a ''psychospiritual Disneyland.''
Fantasy Island?
He goes diving with a self-proclaimed ''shark caller.''
Upshot
Beautifully detailed but occasionally digressive, The Shark God offers a heady blend of history, memoir, and anthropology.
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