![]() Richardson expertly develops this story by backtracking several years before the events, describing the lives and deaths of children and other tribe members through tribal wars and as demanded by the law of their pagan wene melalek. ![]() And like the Auca Indians, the Yali tribes of the Heluk and Seng valleys responded to the threat with violence, here murdering unarmed missionaries Stan Dale and Phil Masters with their bamboo arrows. Like the jungles of Ecuador where Jim Elliot and his co-workers were murdered in the 50s, the mountains of Irian Jaya in the 60s hosted tribes of people untainted by the modern world, people who misunderstood the advent of missionaries to their turf as hostel aliens bent on destruction. Don Richardson delivers an un-put-downable story that rivals the best adventure fiction, and after 367 pages, I’m sorry it’s over! ![]() How do you start reviewing such a story as this? Like Through Gates of Splendor, this unbelievable recounting of martyrdom and missions is a flawless modern classic based upon eye-witness, first-person testimony. Another incredible-but-true story from the stone-age hell of Irian Jaya’s jungles ![]()
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