Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Lit -- Into the furnace -- Fire and sky -- Scorched -- Ashes, ashes -- A voice from the flames -- Epilogue |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Bascom, Tim, 1961- -- Childhood and youth
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SUBJECT |
Bascom, Tim, 1961- fast |
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Missionaries -- Ethiopia
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Americans -- Ethiopia -- Biography
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TRAVEL -- Africa -- East.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- East.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Americans
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Missionaries
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Travel
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SUBJECT |
Ethiopia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045128
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Ethiopia -- History -- Revolution, 1974 -- Personal narratives, American
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Ethiopia
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Personal narratives
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781609383299 |
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160938329X |
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