My African Reminiscences 1875-1895..
Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with blind stamped title on front board. Extremities worn, including head and tail of spine, which is slightly sunned; otherwise a very good copy. Pictorial bookplate on first free endpaper.
£10.00
Publisher
Universities' Mission to Central Africa, ( Dartmouth Street, S.W.1.,
Place
Westminster
Date
1924
Synopsis
By the ven. william percival johnson, d.d. archdeacon of nyasa.
Item Description
8vo. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. 236 pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 8 black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece and by folding map at end. Decorated by publisher's device on title page.
Notes
Account of his African mission to Nyasaland (now Malawi) on behalf of the UMCA, by William Percival Johnson (1854-1928), Anglican Archdeacon of Nyasa. He was involved in the translation of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer into a local language and is now locally regarded as a saint.
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