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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780489903321

Autore

Armour-Hileman Victoria <1958->

Titolo

Singing to the dead : a missioner's life among refugees from Burma / / Victoria Armour-Hileman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

0-8203-2633-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

261.8/328

Soggetti

Mon (Southeast Asian people) - Thailand - Bangkok

Church work with refugees - Thailand - Bangkok

Refugees - Burma

Missionaries - Thailand - Bangkok

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""BLESSINGS IN THE RAIN""; ""Flying Buddha""; ""Florence Nightingale""; ""Mothers and Sons""; ""BEYOND RISK""; ""A Soldier in the Jungle""; ""A Basket of Prayers""; ""Dancing with the Hurricane""; ""DEATH RAILWAY""; ""A Letter from Prison""; ""Selling Death""; ""Misunderstandings""; ""Where Our Sympathies Lie""; ""Safe""; ""The Sound of the Prison Gate""; ""A TRUE FRIEND""; ""The Stories We Tell""; ""Where the Poor Search for Justice""; ""Snowy River""; ""CROSSING BORDERS""; ""Presidents and Kings""; ""When Monland Is Free""

""One Step Forward""""Singing to the Dead""; ""THE FACE OF GOD""; ""A Strange Reception""; ""A Case of Stomachache""; ""The Lion and the Dragon""