Up the Notched-Log Ladder.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: MBR Bookwatch | Date: September 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Up the Notched-Log Ladder

Sydwell Mouw Flynn

Airleaf Publishing

35 Industrial Drive, Martinsville, IN 46151

9781418471057, $18.95 www.airleaf.com 1-800-342-6068

Up the Notched-Log Ladder: Arthur and Edna Among the Dayaks of Borneo is a blend of memoir and primary source testimony of one missionary family's experience deep in the jungles of Borneo, and their life among the Dayaks, the indigenous people of Borneo, from 1933 to 1950. Up the Notched-Log Ladder follows Arthur and Edna's odyssey forging an emotional and mutually respectful ...

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