Through Gates Of Splendour: The Martyrdom Of Five Missionaries In The Ecuador Jungle
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the dense, uncharted depths of the Ecuadorian jungle in 1956, five young American missionaries — Jim Elliot, Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, Roger Youderian, and Nate Saint — were speared to death by the very Huaorani (Auca) tribespeople they had devoted their lives to reaching with the Christian gospel. Through Gates of Splendour is Elisabeth Elliot's searing, first-hand chronicle of that fateful mission, drawing on the diary records, letters, and photographs left behind by the men and their families to reconstruct one of the most dramatic and heart-wrenching stories of religious devotion of the twentieth century. Written in collaboration with the other surviving missionary wives, Elliot presents not a tale of defeat, but a testament to extraordinary courage and unwavering faith in the face of mortal danger. Beyond its gripping narrative, the book stands as a landmark work in Christian literature, raising profound questions about sacrifice, calling, and the ultimate cost of conviction. Elliot's prose is spare yet deeply affecting, allowing the voices of the five men — captured in their own words — to resonate with an intimacy that no biography could manufacture. First published by Harper & Row in 1957, it has never been out of print, a measure of its enduring power; and for those who finish its final pages, the question it poses — what would you die for? — lingers long after the last word is read.
Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the dense, uncharted depths of the Ecuadorian jungle in 1956, five young American missionaries — Jim Elliot, Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, Roger Youderian, and Nate Saint — were speared to death by the very Huaorani (Auca) tribespeople they had devoted their lives to reaching with the Christian gospel. Through Gates of Splendour is Elisabeth Elliot's searing, first-hand chronicle of that fateful mission, drawing on the diary records, letters, and photographs left behind by the men and their families to reconstruct one of the most dramatic and heart-wrenching stories of religious devotion of the twentieth century. Written in collaboration with the other surviving missionary wives, Elliot presents not a tale of defeat, but a testament to extraordinary courage and unwavering faith in the face of mortal danger. Beyond its gripping narrative, the book stands as a landmark work in Christian literature, raising profound questions about sacrifice, calling, and the ultimate cost of conviction. Elliot's prose is spare yet deeply affecting, allowing the voices of the five men — captured in their own words — to resonate with an intimacy that no biography could manufacture. First published by Harper & Row in 1957, it has never been out of print, a measure of its enduring power; and for those who finish its final pages, the question it poses — what would you die for? — lingers long after the last word is read.