TY - BOOK ID - 77884790 TI - In war and famine PY - 2005 SN - 1282863258 9786612863257 0773572597 9780773572591 9780773528536 0773528539 PB - Montréal Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - Missionaries KW - Missions KW - Famines KW - Famine KW - Food supply KW - Starvation KW - Christian missions KW - Christianity KW - Missions, Foreign KW - Religion KW - Theology, Practical KW - Proselytizing KW - Religious adherents KW - History KW - Henan Sheng (China) KW - Ho-nan sheng (China) KW - Kanan-shō (China) KW - Honan Province (China) KW - Chung-chou (China : Province) KW - Ho-nan sheng cheng fu (China) KW - Pʻing-yüan sheng (China) KW - Henan Province (China) KW - Ho-nan (China) KW - Ho-nan sheng jen min cheng fu (China) KW - 河南省 (China) KW - S03/0603 KW - S13B/0500 KW - S20/1040 KW - China: Geography, description and travel--Henan KW - China: Christianity--Protestantism: general KW - China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Famine and famine relief KW - Missionnaires KW - Histoire KW - Henan (Chine : Sheng) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77884790 AB - While the principle narrator is Christensen's father, a young missionary doctor who, in a hair-raising journey, smuggled his family behind Japanese battlelines the year before Pearl Harbor, Christensen also tells the story of the many other missionaries who also sought to relieve the suffering of innocents caught in the crossfire of war and revolution - brave women who marched orphans through enemy lines, missionaries turned OSS intelligence officers, a Canadian Anglican cleric, a Swiss trainer of seeing-eye dogs, and a diplomat who travelled the province by bicycle. ER -