By: Barnes, Bertram Herbert.
Price: $11.25
Publisher:
Westminster, UK., Universities' Mission To Central Africa: 1933
Seller ID: 9320
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
8vo - 21.5 x 15.5 cm.; 258 pp. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine and blind stamped titling on front board. Johnson (1854-1928) was a Church of England missionary in Africa for fifty-three years. Among other accomplishments, he translated the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer into Chinyanja. Illustrated with black and white photographs, mapped endpapers (the front is the slave routes from Nyasa to the slave ports of East Africa, the back is the dioceses of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa) and a map within the text (the "Sherriff's" last trip), along extracts from...
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