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

by Tim Bascom

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"