George Leslie Mackay

From Far Formosa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781017219937
• ISBN-10: 1017219931
• Artikelnr.: 67017249

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial preface
Introductory: 1. Early years of the author
2. At Princeton and Edinburgh
3. Toronto to Tamsui
4. First view of Formosa
The Island: 5. Geography and history
6. Geology
7. Trees, plants, and flowers
8. Animal life
9. Ethnology in outline
Among the Chinese: 10. The people
11. Government and justice
12. Industrial and social life
13. Chinese religious life
14. Beginnings of mission work
15. The first native preacher and his church
16. Establishing churches
17. How Bang-Kah was taken
18. Touring in the north
19. The Waiting Isles
20. The coming of the French
The Conquered Aborigines: 21. Pe-Po-Hoan characteristics
22. Rice-farming in Formosa
23. Mission work among the Pe-Po-Hoan
24. A trip down the east coast
25. A Sek-Hoan mission
26. Life among the Lam-Si-Hoan
The Mountain Savages: 27. Savage life and customs
28. With the head-hunters
At Headquarters: 29. A sketch of Tamsui
30. Training a native ministry
31. Oxford College
32. Native workers for native women
33. Medical work and the hospital
34. Foreigners and the missions
35. With the English Presbyterians
36. Retrospect and prospect
Index.