In January 1956, a tragic but inspiring stroy broke in headlines across the world. Five young men had dared to make contact with a Stone Age tribe deep in the jungles of Ecuador. The goal: to establish communication with a people whose only previous response to the outside world had been to attack all strangers.

 

The men's mission combined modern technology with innate ingenuity, sparked by a passionate determination to get the Gospel to a people without Christ.

 

After several preliminary overtures of friendship, the men set out on a crucial January day in 1956 for a meeting with the Waorani tribes-people, who had reacted with apparent tolerance to earlier gifts and messages. At an agreed-upon time, the five young wives sat by their radios, waiting for the news...

 

In this classic book by Elisabeth Elliot, read about the trip that was to change their lives, their families' lives, and the lives of the people they went to meet with, forever.

 

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