Paton dr john g (6 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Light wear to edges, light scuffing to wrappers. Interior clean and unmarked. Small bookstore stamp to bottom of title page. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. pp.xiv+382 +ad. 20cm. Frontispiece (family group). 23 black and white illustrations in the text. Map. Portion of margin lacking from final two leaves with no loss of text. Hard cover. Spine lettered in gilt. Gilt device on upper cover. Slight wear to the edges but a good clean copy Experiences of Mission Life in the New Hebrides from c.1865. [776g].…

4th edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 256pp., frontis., map, b/w ills., appendix, Edited by Dr. James Paton.

Pictorial Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Fourth edition completing eighth thousand, edited by Paton's brother-in-law, xi, 382, (2)pp., frontispiece and approximatley 20 other illustrations including map. bound in pictorial green cloth depicting an island scene in gilt, spine lettering gilt, edges lightly rubbed, previous owners plate, a very good copy. A compilation of the Paton family letters describing life inthe New Hebrides from the first impressions to "Home Sweet Home on Aniwa" as well as comments on The Year of the Hurricane and anecdotes regarding slavers and friends.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. xi, [1]blank, [1 leaf], 382, [2]ads. with half-title. photogravure frontis., 1 coloured map & 23 text illus. (some full-page). untrimmed & largely unopened in original gilt-stamped cloth (some scattered foxing). Second Edition. The author was the second wife of pioneer missionary, John G.Paton, who devoted his life to the Presbyterian Church in the New Hebrides, and later Australia. "He took his new bride out to Aniwa, neighbouring Tanna in the archipelago between the Solomons and New Caledonia in 1865, and there they stayed, weathering inhospitable natives, repeated illness, the birth of six children (and the death of two more), until 1881[Maggie's] account of life on Ainiwa is by turns high-spirited and despairing the latter particularly when one by one her children are sent for their own safety to live with relatives in Australia; it is less saccharine than many a missionary's tale and one of the most reprinted of them all." (Robinson) cfO'Reilly 2728. cfRobinson, Wayward Women, pp.168-69.…