The Big Rain

by Elsie Milligan

Umfaan is a Zulu herd-boy, who watches his father's cattle, and listens to his grandfather's stories of the great days of his tribe.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Elsie Burr Milligan was commissioned to Central Africa by ‘Echoes of Service’ in 1920 and spent twenty-one years at the Kalene Hill mission in Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia), working first in the hospital and dispensary, before taking charge of the mission school and later establishing outstations in surrounding villages. She retired from the missionary life in 1945, and settled in South Africa where she married Adam Milligan. She wrote her memoirs, Kalene Memories (1956), under her maiden name, and as ‘E. Milligan’ she wrote some 22 novels for children which appeared in a steady succession until the later 1960s. These novels conveyed a Christian message and most had an African setting.