Young Len Allen and his wife, Kay, beginning a ministry in the town of Milford, New Hampshire in the 1930s, seemed destined for an unremarkable life in rural New England - until a letter arrived one day summoning them to a college post in Burma. Catapulted into the seething dangerous world of South Asia in the twilight of the British Raj, they begin a 50-year adventure that reads like a modern historical novel. From the pyramids of Egypt to the pagodas of Burma, from the horrors of Japanese bombing raids on Rangoon, to the nightmares of fleeing Mao's armies in China, Len Allen makes his way...