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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bascom, Tim, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Bascom, Tim, > 1961- > Childhood and youth.
Bascom, Tim, > 1961-
1974
Missionaries > Ethiopia.
Americans > Ethiopia > Biography.
Missionnaires > Éthiopie.
TRAVEL > Africa > East.
HISTORY > Africa > East.
Childhood and youth of a person
Americans
Missionaries
Travel
Ethiopia > Description and travel.
Ethiopia > History > Revolution, 1974 > Personal narratives, American.
Éthiopie > Descriptions et voyages.
Ethiopia
Biographies
History
Personal narratives > American
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Lit
  • Into the furnace
  • Fire and sky
  • Scorched
  • Ashes, ashes
  • A voice from the flames
  • Epilogue.

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