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Through Gates of Splendor

Through Gates of Splendor

by Elisabeth Elliot

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appears in Christian Biographies.

In 1956, five young men, including Elliot's husband, Jim, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to establish communication with the fierce Huaorani Tribe, a people whose only previous response to the outside world has been to attack all strangers. The men's mission combined modern Technology, with innate ingenuity, sparked by a passionate determinati...

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