A Different SunA Different Sun
a Novel of Africa
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Paperback, 2013
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Current format, Paperback, 2013, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsAn extraordinary debut novel about an American woman who travels to West Africa as a missionary. In 1853, twenty-year-old Emma Bowman follows her new husband to West Africa, as the continent's first white woman missionary. Here, Emma will either survive a trial by fire or succumb to a crisis of faith. Among the Yoruba people, Emma learns to recognize the grim reminders of the brutal slave trade. And as her husband battles fever, his gift of a writing box with its diary becomes Emma's solace.
An extraordinary debut novel about an American woman who travels to West Africa as a missionary. In 1853, twenty-year-old Emma Bowman follows her new husband to West Africa, as the continent's first white woman missionary. Here, Emma will either survive a trial by fire or succumb to a crisis of faith. Among the Yoruba people, Emma learns to recognize the grim reminders of the brutal slave trade. And as her husband battles fever, his gift of a writing box with its diary becomes Emma's solace.
An extraordinary debut novel about an American woman who travels to West Africa as a missionary. In 1853, twenty-year-old Emma Bowman follows her new husband to West Africa, as the continent's first white woman missionary. Here, Emma will either survive a trial by fire or succumb to a crisis of faith. Among the Yoruba people, Emma learns to recognize the grim reminders of the brutal slave trade. And as her husband battles fever, his gift of a writing box with its diary becomes Emma's solace.
An extraordinary debut novel about an American woman who travels to West Africa as a missionary. In 1853, twenty-year-old Emma Bowman follows her new husband to West Africa, as the continent's first white woman missionary. Here, Emma will either survive a trial by fire or succumb to a crisis of faith. Among the Yoruba people, Emma learns to recognize the grim reminders of the brutal slave trade. And as her husband battles fever, his gift of a writing box with its diary becomes Emma's solace.
An extraordinary debut novel about an American woman who travels to West Africa as a missionary. In 1853, twenty-year-old Emma Bowman follows her new husband to West Africa, as the continent's first white woman missionary. Here, Emma will either survive a trial by fire or succumb to a crisis of faith. Among the Yoruba people, Emma learns to recognize the grim reminders of the brutal slave trade. And as her husband battles fever, his gift of a writing box with its diary becomes Emma's solace.
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