Tim Bascom: 2 books
Running to the Fire
An American Missionary Comes of Age in Revolutionary Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
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...
Chameleon Days
An American Boyhood in Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2006
In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. The unflinchingly observant narrator of this memoir reveals his missionary parents’ struggles in a sometimes hostile country. Sent reluctantly...