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From Far Formosa - The Island, its People and Missions (Paperback)
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From Far Formosa - The Island, its People and Missions (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia
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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.
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