Fire Walkers

By Bethlehem Terrefe Gebreyohannes and Mary Louise Kelly

It's 1974, a coup has just installed a repressive military regime in Ethiopia. A family of five undertakes to escape from Addis Ababa to Djibouti, cross the brutal Danakil Desert on foot. Beth Gebreyohannes, a young girl at the time, describes that grim, perilous journey. Betrayed by guides and robbed by bandits, lost in the desert without food or water, they are rescued finally by a trading caravan of nomadic Afar tribesmen, complete strangers who feed and guide them on to Djibouti. In this port city, other strangers house them until-more than a year after they left-they receive their visas for Canada.

This is a story at once gripping and moving, about the endurance and courage of a family escaping to freedom against all odds; a story everyone would acknowledge as a portrait of our times, when so many everywhere run to seek safe havens.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927494796
• ISBN13: 9781927494790
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"