Name: From far Formosa: The Island, its People and Missions (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) (en Inglés)
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Author: MacKay, George Leslie ; MacDonald, J. a.
ISBN: 9781108037723

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From far Formosa: The Island, its People and Missions (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

George Leslie MacKay

Ilustrado por

J. a. MacDonald

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Año

2011

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

392

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6 x 14.0 x 2.2 cm

Peso

0.49 kg.

ISBN

1108037720

ISBN13

9781108037723

Categorías

China
Antologías: general
Historia de asia

From far Formosa: The Island, its People and Missions (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia) (en Inglés)

George Leslie MacKay (Autor) · J. a. MacDonald (Ilustrado por) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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.