Singing to the dead : a missioner's life among refugees from Burma / Victoria Armour-Hileman.
Singing to the dead : a missioner's life among refugees from Burma / Victoria Armour-Hileman.
Singing to the dead : a missioner's life among refugees from Burma / Victoria Armour-Hileman.
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Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2002.
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N261.8328/1
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Language
English
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xvii, 257 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Blessings in the rain -- Flying Buddha -- Florence Nightingale -- Mothers and sons -- Beyond risk -- A soldier in the jungle -- A basket of prayers -- Dancing with the hurricane -- Death railway -- A letter from prison -- Selling death -- Misunderstandings -- Where our sympathies lie -- Safe -- The...
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Publisher
Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2002.
Place of Publication
Georgia
Date Published
c2002.
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"As the centuries-old conflict between Burma and its Mon people worsens, police raids on the temple in Bangkok increase. Refugees have never been safe, but now even the monks' unofficial immunity seems tenuous. When one of the monks is threatened with repatriation to Burma and possible imprisonment and torture, Armour-Hileman begins the desperate r...
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Singing to the dead : a missioner's life among refugees from Burma / Victoria Armour-Hileman.
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c2002.
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N261.8328/1
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74Vv4Z5gxAgM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv4Z5gxAgM
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ISBN
0820323586 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820323589 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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261.8328
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991015354899702626
