"A Voice Came Down The Mountain"

Amid revolution, lightning and mines, the author ran up a Guatemala volcano to meet Ana, who led guerrilla forces to stop the massacre of Mayans by her father's army. Decades after her death, he discovered Ana lives on within Maya hearts revolutionized by the same two words she spoke to him. The finding climaxed the greatest story of his life, spanning five decades and a galaxy of remarkable humans, including a village poet who taught Terry how to see into the marrow of Mayan existence, and the little daughter Ana left with only a mysterious poem to hug.

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"A Voice Came Down The Mountain"

Amid revolution, lightning and mines, the author ran up a Guatemala volcano to meet Ana, who led guerrilla forces to stop the massacre of Mayans by her father's army. Decades after her death, he discovered Ana lives on within Maya hearts revolutionized by the same two words she spoke to him. The finding climaxed the greatest story of his life, spanning five decades and a galaxy of remarkable humans, including a village poet who taught Terry how to see into the marrow of Mayan existence, and the little daughter Ana left with only a mysterious poem to hug.

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A Voice Came Down The Mountain

"A Voice Came Down The Mountain"

by Terry Winckler
A Voice Came Down The Mountain

"A Voice Came Down The Mountain"

by Terry Winckler

Overview

Amid revolution, lightning and mines, the author ran up a Guatemala volcano to meet Ana, who led guerrilla forces to stop the massacre of Mayans by her father's army. Decades after her death, he discovered Ana lives on within Maya hearts revolutionized by the same two words she spoke to him. The finding climaxed the greatest story of his life, spanning five decades and a galaxy of remarkable humans, including a village poet who taught Terry how to see into the marrow of Mayan existence, and the little daughter Ana left with only a mysterious poem to hug.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798988144939
Publisher: Terwin Publishing LLC
Publication date: 10/05/2024
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Terry Winckler is an award-winning author/editor in the San Francisco Bay Area who led two daily newspapers as executive editor and was managing editor of the environmental organization Earthjustice. He worked in a Mayan village as a volunteer, covered Guatemala's civil war as a journalist, and hitchhiked home to the United States along the migrant trail. He lives in Alameda, California.
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