Running to the Fire: An American Missionary Comes of Age in Revolutionary Ethiopia
(Part of the Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction Series)
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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 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1609383281
ISBN13:9781609383282
Release Date:April 2015
Publisher:University of Iowa Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.7" x 9.1"
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