Running to the Fire : An American Missionary Comes of Age in Revolutionary Ethiopia /

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In the streets of Addis Ababa in 1977, shop-front posters illustrate Uncle Sam being strangled by an Ethiopian revolutionary, parliamentary leaders are executed, student protesters are gunned down, and Christian mission converts are targeted as imperialistic sympathizers. Into this world arrives six...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bascom, Tim, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bascom, Tim, > 1961-
Bascom, Tim, > 1961- > Childhood and youth.
Travel.
Missionaries.
Americans.
HISTORY > Africa > East.
TRAVEL > Africa > East.
Missionnaires > Éthiopie.
Americans > Ethiopia > Biography.
Missionaries > Ethiopia.
Ethiopia.
Éthiopie > Descriptions et voyages.
Ethiopia > History > Revolution, 1974 > Personal narratives, American.
Ethiopia > Description and travel.
Personal narratives > American.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In the streets of Addis Ababa in 1977, shop-front posters illustrate Uncle Sam being strangled by an Ethiopian revolutionary, parliamentary leaders are executed, student protesters are gunned down, and Christian mission converts are targeted as imperialistic sympathizers. Into this world arrives sixteen-year-old Tim Bascom, whose missionary parents have brought their family from a small town in Kansas straight into Colonel Mengistu's Marxist "Red Terror." Here they plan to work alongside a tiny remnant of western missionaries who trust that God will somehow keep them safe. Running to the Fire f.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (246 pages).
ISBN:9781609383299

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