Select List of Books, Articles and Other Resource Materials
The brief list below makes no attempt to be comprehensive, but only lists major biographies of the five men, works by their family members, and a few items of special interest. In the case of books, the most recent edition is indicated.
Books
Daniel Bay, Grant Wacker. The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home : Explorations in North American Cultural History, University of Alabama Press, 2003. See the essay by Kathryn Long, “In the modern world, but not of it : the ‘Auca martyrs,’ evangelicalism, and postwar American culture.”
Earle Cairns. V. Raymond Edman: In the Presence of the King, Moody Press, 1972.
Elizabeth Elliot:
The Savage My Kinsman, Regal Books, 2004. (The story of Elisabeth and Valerie Elliot’s life among the Waorani.)
The Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testimony of Jim Elliot, Harper & Row, 2011.
Through Gates of Splendor, Tyndale House, 2013. (Originally published in 1957 and continually in print since then, the book tells the story of the men’s lives, their mission to the Waorani, and their deaths. Later editions usually included updates on events since 1956.)
Jim Elliot. The Journals of Jim Elliot, edited by Elisabeth Elliot, Fleming H. Revell, 2002.
James and Marti Hefley. Unstilled Voices, Christian Herald Books, 1981. (History of the planting of Christianity among the Waorani.)
Russell Hitt. Jungle Pilot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint, Discovery House, 1997.
Rosemary Kingsland. A Saint Among Savages, Collins, 1980. (A biography of Rachel Saint with a good map in the endpapers.)
Olive Fleming Liefeld. Unfolding Destinies: The Untold Story of Peter Fleming and the Auca Mission, Zondervan, 1990.
Valerie Elliot Shepard. Pilipinto’s Happiness: The Jungle Childhood of Valerie Elliot, Vision Forum, 2001.
Ethel Emily Wallis:
The Dayuma Story / Life Under Auca Spears, Spire Books, 1971.
Aucas Downriver / Dayuma’s Story Today, Harper & Row, 1973.
Articles
“Operation Auca: Four Years After the Martyrdom,” Christianity Today, January 4, 1960.
“Did They Have to Die,” Steve Saint, Christianity Today, September 16, 1996.
“Martyrs to the Spear,” Kathryn Long with Carolyn Nystrom, Christian History and Biography, January 2006.
“Why The Legacy Lasts,” Stacy Long, AFA Journal, 2015.
Other
This Is Your Life television program about Rachel Saint and featuring Dayuma, available on YouTube, January 1957 (in 2 parts): Part 1 and Part 2.
Press conference for Kimo and Gikita during the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin, Germany, October 1966 (audio and transcript).
Beyond the Gates of Splendor (video), 20th Century Fox, 2005.
End of the Spear (video), 20th Century Fox, 2006.
Tell Them We Are Not Auca; We Are Waorani (video), Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1988.
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