Thursday, April 19, 2007

The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Missionary Childhood in Ethiopia



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A pink-skinned, fair-haired child of Canadian missionary parents, Daniel Coleman grew up with an ambivalent relationship to the country of his birth. He was clearly different from his Ethiopian playmates, but because he was born there and knew no other home, he was not completely foreign. Like the eucalyptus, a tree imported to Ethiopia from Australia in the late 19th century to solve a firewood shortage, he and his missionary family were naturalized transplants. As... More >>

The Scent of Eucalyptus: A Missionary Childhood in Ethiopia

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