ISBN-13: 9780872431829
These letters by a British priest serving a remote rural Nicaraguan parish first appeared in newspapers in England, France, Spain, Germany and Ireland. "Since 1980 I have been visiting Nicaragua nearly every year, but I have learnt all I know of the dangerous contra central area on the way to the Atlantic coast from Father Medcalf's letters. These describe daily life in a small parish with the rather odd name of Muelle de los Bueyes (Ox-ford) where contra attacks which spare neither women or children are just a part of normal life...." (from the foreward by Graham Greene)
