description: Through Gates of Splendor is a 1957 best selling book written by Elisabeth Elliot. The book tells the story of Operation Auca, an attempt by five American missionaries - Jim Elliot (the author's husband), Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, Nate Saint, and Roger Youderian - to reach the Huaorani tribe of eastern Ecuador. All five of the men were killed by the tribe. The book is Elliot's first book, and arguably her most well known work.
language: English
title: Through Gates of Splendor
titlecomplete: Through Gates of Splendor
characters: Roger Youderian, Peter Fleming, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot, Nate Saint
genres: Christianity, Christian Non Fiction, History, Theology, Faith, Biography Memoir, Biography, Christian, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 29299
places: Ecuador
publisher: Doubleday Books