Chameleon days : an American boyhood in Ethiopia
"In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. The unflinchingly observant narrator of this memoir reveals his missionary parents' struggles in a sometimes hostile country. Sent reluctantly to boarding school in the capital, young Tim finds that beyond the gates enclosing that peculiar, isolated world, conflict roils Ethiopian society. When secret riot drills at school are followed with an attack by rampaging students near his parents' mission station, Tim witnesses the disintegration of his family's African idyll as Hailie Selassie's empire begins to crumble." "Like Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Chameleon Days chronicles social upheaval through the keen yet naive eyes of a child. Bascom offers readers a fascinating glimpse of missionary life, much as Barbara Kingsolver did in The Poisonwood Bible."--Jacket
Autobiography
1 online resource (x, 240 pages) : illustrations
9780547346472, 0547346476
773271747
Contents
Foreword
PART ONE
Baboons on a Cliff
The Chameleon Looked Both Ways
A Vocabulary for My Senses
The Letters She Wrote
The Emperor s Smile
Birth Order
Bushwhacking
In My Father's House
My Brother s Keeper
Blessed Assurance
Come or Go?
Castaways
PART TWO
Wave Goodbye
Cinders
Code of Conduct
Waiting Games
Candy Day
Moon Landing
My World, Their World
Sent Back
And I'll Fly Away
What Kind of Children?
My Pilgrim Progress
The Volcanic Lake Riot DrillBesieged
Hidden Agendas
Pigeon Fever
Warning Signs
Lost Armor
Epilogue
FURTHER READING
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
"A Mariner original."