About this title: This is the moving autobiography of the heroic Scot missionary, John G. Paton, who introduced the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the cannibalistic inhabitants of the New Hebrides in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Binding: hardcover, 6" x 8¾", with dust jacket
Publisher: The Banner of Truth Trust, publishers, London
Date Published: 1965
Description: Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. GOOD book in GOOD price-clipped dust jacket. 524 pages. John G Paton was born into poverty in Glasgow in 1824 and was ordained as a missionary to the New Hebrides in 1858. Two earlier missionaries were clubbed to death within minutes of landing among the natives; Paton's wife and child died suddenly within months of their arrival. Despite the trials and tragedies, Paton perservered and ... read more
Description: NY (c. 1900) Robert Carter. Edited by Paton's brother. 8vo., 375pp., 382p. frontis, booklist at end, gilt decorated hardcover. Top edge gilt. Two bookplates inside front cover. Good, foxing and old dry stain on frontis. 2 volumes in one. read more
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00408 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback) read more
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00404 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: KESSINGER PUB LLC
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781436566872ISBN:1436566878
Description: This is the moving autobiography of the heroic Scot missionary, John G. Paton, who introduced the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the cannibalistic inhabitants of the New Hebrides in the mid-nineteenth century. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, London
Date Published: 1891
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Part 1 only, 18th thousand, blue cloth with gilt decoration on front board, one corner bumped, otherwise slight wear to corners and couple of small dampspots, frontis. portrait sl. browned in margins, text block generally clean, ex-library, but bears only an ink number on prelim blank. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Revell no date (1889) New York
Description: Pon; very good 382p, 8vo, brown cloth gilt; second part of Paton's biography, edited by his brother, with preface by A.T. Pierson Monday, February 07, 2000. read more
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