When agent Eileen Cope at the Lowenstein Associates agency sent out a proposal for a book about the Indian healer Ammachi and her world travels, she crafted it very carefully to allow for skepticism among editors who received it -- only to find that several of them had been among the crowds who gather wherever the woman, regarded by her followers as a saint, g s. In the end it was Joann Davis, for her Eagle Brook imprint at Morrow, who pre-empted, with a six-figure deal for world rights (which Cope will be selling for her). "It's just the sort of book I'm always looking for, about caring and compassion in an increasingly depersonalized world," Davis said. It will be written by Judith Cornell, who has been a longtime Ammachi follower, and who has been given exclusive access to the healer by her foundation, which Cope represents. The book, Traveling the Miracle Highway: A Pilgrimage with a Modern-Day Saint, which should be delivered early in 2000, will be, said Davis, "part autobiography, and part a chronicle of Ammachi's world travels. "