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A Daring Game - George Borrow's Sales in Spain (1837-1839) of the Scio New Testament (Madrid 1837) (Paperback)
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A Daring Game - George Borrow's Sales in Spain (1837-1839) of the Scio New Testament (Madrid 1837) (Paperback)
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Loot Price R415
Discovery Miles 4 150
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In 1837 George Borrow, the brilliant polyglot and future author of
best-sellers, arrived in Madrid as agent of the British and Foreign
Bible Society with the assignment to print and distribute a
Protestant version of the New Testament in a staunchly Catholic
land. In the first months of the year he saw through to press an
edition of no fewer than 5,000 copies. Then he spent the next three
years selling the book, against tremendous opposition from the
Catholic Church and hostile conservative authorities, in all the
nooks and corners of the land, to all classes of Spanish society,
in big cities and in tiny villages. Thrice imprisoned, a dozen
times nearly killed by bandits, firing-squad, disease or accident,
Borrow persisted where saner men would soon have yielded. When at
last he returned to England, the greater part of his 'Scio New
Testament' had been duly sold to noblemen, donkey-drivers and
jailbirds, to 'muleteers, carmen, and contrabandistas', to city
bourgeois and intellectuals craving for a look at Europe's most
fundamental text. A Daring Game does not repeat the whole story of
Borrow's adventures as told in his sensational 1843 travelogue 'The
Bible in Spain'. Instead, it investigates the conditions and
circumstances under which Borrow's New Testament was produced and
distributed, and for the first time in two centuries calculates the
exact numbers of sales attained by a bookseller of genius in a land
plagued by war, pestilence, ignorance and hatred.
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