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Things Seen in Northern India by T.L. Pennell

"Things Seen in..." seems to have been a series of guidebooks aimed at European visitors to foreign parts in the…

7 years ago

Pioneer Life, Work and Adventure in New Guinea with James Chalmers

The contents of these two books by James Chalmers [1841-1901] about his work in New Guinea overlap, so I am…

7 years ago

Alfred Saker Pioneer of the Cameroons

Alfred Saker [1814-1880] was a pioneer of Baptist Missions to Cameroon, West Africa, where he served for 32 years. He…

7 years ago

Wesleyan Medical Missions in China to 1909

Arthur Tatchell's history of medical missions in China is illustrated with 46 photographs which have been scanned in greyscale to…

7 years ago

Story of Jamaican Missions: A Book Review

Dr Billy Hall offers a detailed review of Lloyd A. Cooke's book The Story of Jamaican Missions. How the Gospel…

7 years ago

Patteson of Melanesia by Frank H.L. Paton

Frank Paton retells the life story of John Coleridge Patteson [1827-1871] the missionary bishop of Melanesia for a new generation…

7 years ago

C19th CMS Missionary Work in Uganda

This is a heavily illustrated history of Nineteenth Century Missionary work in Uganda undertaken by the Church Missionary Society. My…

7 years ago

Theodore Pennell, Medical Missionary to the Afghan Tribes

Theodore Leighton Pennell [1867–1912] founded a missionary hospital and a mission boarding school in what is today Pakistan. Wikipedia provides…

7 years ago

Griffith John Founder of the Hankow Mission Central China

Griffith John [1831-1912] was a Welsh Congregationalist who served with the London Missionary Society in Central China. He is notable…

8 years ago

Story of James Gilmour and the Mongol Mission

Mary Bryson's account of the life and work of James Gilmour [1843-1891] among the Mongols. My thanks to Redcliffe College…

8 years ago