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Title: From Far Formosa. The island, its people and missions ...
Edited by J. A. Macdonald, etc.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
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additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF ASIA collection includes books
from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series
includes ethnographic and general histories of distinct peripheral
coastal regions that comprise South and East Asia. Other works
focus on cultural history, archaeology, and linguistics. These
books help readers understand the forces that shaped the ancient
civilisations and influenced the modern countries of Asia. ++++The
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British Library Mackay, George Leslie; MacDonald, James Alexander;
1896, 1895] 346 p.; 8 . 010057.ee.37.
This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the
World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important
historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come
from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject
produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a
discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the
subject. From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the
Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the
book was made in an effort to preserve the work of previous
generations.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
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imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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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