ReadersMagnet Showcased “Into Abyssinia: The Odyssey of a Family” by Carl E. Hansen at the 2023 Guadalajara International Book Fair

Ethiopia, one of the worlds oldest countries, has over 3000 years of history and is known as Africas first independent nation. As such, the place is brimming with profound stories such as Carl E. Hansens autobiography Into Abyssinia: The Odyssey of a Family, by which value goes beyond the African continent. The book was displayed by self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet at the 2023 Guadalajara International Book Fair. The book fair occurred from November 25 to December 3, 2023, at the Expo Guadalajara Convention Center, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

In his autobiographical book, Carl gives an informative and lively account of the first eight years of his and his familys living and serving in pre-revolutionary feudal Ethiopia. The events occurred from 1967 to 1975, a pivotal time in Ethiopias history, marked by growing discontent with feudalism and the ancient imperial regime that supported it.

During the 1960s, the Ethiopian Empire began to experience political instability. Ethiopians suffer from a slow pace of economic development, stagnating quality of life, and human rights abuses. It was a time of increasing turmoil that, amid drought and famine, spilled over into an armed revolution, a time when ignorant men with guns overpowered the best minds and forced a tradition-bound society to join in a bloody experiment with radical socialism.

It was a time when the slow and challenging years of missionary effort in planting the seeds of the Christian gospel began to sprout, take root, and grow into what would become a mighty movement of transformation in that society. Into Abyssinia is a story of adventure as a novice missionary couple learns and adapts to a vastly different culture while raising a family in the less-developed hinterlands.

Into Abyssinia: The Odyssey of a Family was well-received at the Guadalajara International Book Fair 2023. Enjoy a poignant read with Carl E. Hansens book, available on WestbowPress, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. To learn more about the authors work, visit https://www.carlehansen.org/.

Into Abyssinia: The Odyssey of a Family
Author: Carl E. Hansen
Published Date: March 29, 2023
Publisher: Westbow Press
Genre: Memoir/Autobiography

Authors Biography

Carl Edward Hansen was born and raised in rural Alberta and Ontario, Canada. He holds a BA degree (1965) from Eastern Mennonite College in Virginia and graduate degrees from Goshen Biblical Seminary (M. Div., 1971) in Indiana and Fuller Theological Seminary (Th.M., 1985) in California. He was united in marriage with Vera Dorothy King in 1964. Together, they served as missionaries in eastern Africa for over thirty-two years.

Carl served as a high school teacher at the Nazareth Bible Academy from 1967 to 1970 and then as director of a development project in Ethiopia from 1972 to 1975. Between 1975 and 1984, Carl served as a pastor in Alberta. Carl and Vera returned to Africa in 1985, directing a rural community development project in western Kenya, then teaching at the Daystar University in Nairobi until 1995. In January 1996, Carl and Vera returned to Ethiopia to assist the Meserete Kristos Church establish its Meserete Kristos College, now Seminary. They retired to Harrisonburg, VA, in 2011.

Carl and Vera raised four daughters and have nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.