The Unchosen Road... ...To the Deep Well and Back Again

<p>‘The Unchosen Road. . . . . . To the Deep Well and Back Again’ is the true account of a family going to Africa, in 1955, to serve as missionaries in the south Sudan, shared through the eyes of an adolescent girl. It is a time of political unrest between the north and south Sudan. At this time, the mother gets sick and with the inability to travel south to their intended place of service, the family travels north to Assiut, Egypt where there is a mission hospital for better health care for the mother and a mission boarding school for the young girl and her brother to attend. The mother dies and, in her honor, the father returns to the Sudan to start his work.</p><p><br/>After the school year, the children travel the 1,700 miles to spend the summer with their father before heading to Egypt again in the fall for school. The school has moved to Alexandria, Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea.</p><p><br/>After only a month and a half, a war, the Suez Crisis, breaks out in Egypt.