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2005 ECPA Retailer's Choice Award winner for best biography/autobiography Steve Saint was five years old when his father, missionary pilot Nate Saint, was speared to death by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe. In adulthood, Steve, having left Ecuador for a successful business career in the United States, never imagined making the jungle his home again. But when that same tribe asks him to help them, Steve, his wife, and their teenage children move back to the jungle. There, Steve learns long-buried secrets about his father's murder, confronts difficult choices, and finds himself caught between two worlds. Soon to be a major motion picture (January 2006), End of the Spear brilliantly chronicles the continuing story that first captured the world's attention in the bestselling book, Through Gates of Splendor.
Synopsis
When I was a boy, I cried. But now I see it well.
Steve Saint spent his childhood in the jungles of Ecuador among the Waodani tribe. They were his friends. They were his family. They were also the people who had speared and killed his father.
Decades later, having learned to walk Gods trail, the Waodani held Steve to a binding family custom. They insisted that he return from the United States with his own family to live among them in the jungle and teach them how to interact with the outside world.
Also the inspiration for a major motion picture, Steves incredible true story is told here in full. End of the Spear relates how Steve and his familieshis wife and children and his Waodani familywere caught between two worlds. Steve thought he would teach the tribe how to survive in the modern world they now faced. But it is Steve who learns painful lessons about the Waodanis drastically changing world; it is Steve who must face the tragic events of his fathers death and learn to fully trust God to write the story of his life.