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From Far Formosa

The Island, Its People and Missions [Paperback]

by George Leslie Mackay

    • Author

      George Leslie Mackay

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Cambridge Library Collection

    • Published

      October 2011

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      Product Description

      First published in 1896 and based on extracts from diaries, notes and reports, this work, edited by J. A. Macdonald, tells of the nearly three decades that George Mackay (1844-1901) spent on the island of Formosa (now Taiwan). In 1872 the Canadian Presbyterian priest arrived in northern Taiwan and set up a new missionary station. Within a month of his arrival he had made his first convert, a Chinese named Giam Chheng Hoa. Mackay married a local woman, with whom he had three children, and made numerous trips around the island, founded a hospital and established a college. He also gathered specimens of local fauna and flora that formed the cornerstone of a museum. Mackay offers vivid descriptions of Formosan geography, culture and animal life; his interpretation of the syncretic 'heathenism' of Formosa as a 'dark damning nightmare' is characteristic of the Western viewpoint of his time.

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      • Author

        George Leslie Mackay

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Cambridge Library Collection

      • Published

        October 2011

      • Weight

        495g

      • Page Count

        392

      • Dimensions

        140 x 216 x 23 mm

      • ISBN

        9781108037723

      • ISBN-10

        1108037720

      • Eden Code

        4027507

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      • Author/Creator: George Leslie Mackay

      • ISBN: 9781108037723

      • Publisher: Cambridge Library Collection

      • Release Date: October 2011

      • Weight: 495g

      • Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 23 mm

      • Eden Code: 4027507


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