num_pages: 264
description: Following Ethiopia's revolution fourteen-year-old Beth flees Addis Ababa with her family by taxi and then on foot for the Indian Ocean city of Djibouti and from there as refugees to Canada. Here she describes the harrowing journey across the burning Danakil Desert in which they are betrayed their trusted guides and helped by desert nomads. Fire Walkers paints a memorable portrait of Ethiopia its culture history and landscape in an era of conflict persecution and forcible displacement through the eyes and thoughts of an equally unforgettable Ethiopian girl.
language: English
title: Fire Walkers
publisher: University of Toronto Press