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- PublisherOriental Book Store
- Publication date1895
- ISBN 10 9576380723
- ISBN 13 9789576380723
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number4
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From Far Formosa, The Island, Its People and Missions
Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
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Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Reprint. 346 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Seller Inventory # 194608
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FROM FAR FORMOSA The Island, its People and Missions
Seller: Bibliodditiques, IOBA, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. Third edition. Reprint of original edition published in 1896. "George Leslie Mackay or Má-kai (21 March 1844 2 June 1901) was the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Taiwan (then Formosa). He served with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission. Mackay is among the best known Westerners to have lived in Taiwan." Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases. Green cloth-covered boards with silver embossed lettering. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. A gift inscription to "Walter & Barbara" from former Canadian Member of Parliament, Peter Braid, Kitchener-Waterloo, which reads, "For two great Presbyterians who have had such a positive impact on Canada, a book by a great Presbyterian who helped to shape Taiwan!" Walter and Barbara are most likely Walter and Barbara Maclean of Waterloo, Ontario. Walter Maclean was also a Member of Parliament. Illustrated with black and white photos and maps. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 346 pp. Seller Inventory # 6099
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From Far Formosa: The Island,Its People and Missions
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SMC Publishing Inc,china, 2002
ISBN 10: 9576380723
ISBN 13: 9789576380723
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Seller: S.Carter, NEWPORT, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. fascimile of the 3rd.edition.near fine hardback in near fine dustwrapper.a really nice copy.a heavy book requiring extra postage for non uk address. Seller Inventory # 87ghgp0
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From Far Formosa: The Island,Its People and Missions
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SMC Publishing Inc, Taipei, 1991
ISBN 10: 9576380723
ISBN 13: 9789576380723
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Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Reprint. Reprint of the 1896 Third edition. AS NEW. No wear to the binding. No distortion from improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. The as new dust jacket shows no wear, no sun fading. Seller Inventory # MP22-1600H
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From Far Formosa, the Island, Its People and Missions
Seller: Karl Eynon Books Ltd, Tywyn, United Kingdom
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Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Third Edition. Reprint of the original 1896 edition. 346pp, portraits, illustrations and folding maps. Very bright and clean and unmarked fine copy in a complete if not a little edge rubbed jacket. Seller Inventory # 029764
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From Far Formosa. The Island Its People and Missions
Seller: Theologia Books, La Charite sur Loire, France
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like new hardback copy in like new dustjacket. 346pp, b/w plates. 3rd edition, reprint of 1896. Seller Inventory # 024679
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From Far Formosa, the Island, Its People and Missions, by George Leslie MacKay, D.D., twenty-three years a missionary in Formosa.
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Oriental Book Store, 1998
ISBN 10: 9576380723
ISBN 13: 9789576380723
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Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Reprint of 3rdedn of 1896 Edinburgh edition, 1998 (THIS IS AN UNCIRCULATED, UNREAD HIGH QUALITY REPRINT), lg 8vo green cloth lime spine titles, unread Fine/fine dj; 346pp, bw photos (good quality), 4 folding maps, index. Edited by Rev. J. A. Macdonald. With portraits, illustrations and maps. contents include: INTRODUCTORY: Early Years of the Author; At Princeton and Edinburgh; Toronto to Tamsui; First View of Formosa ---The ISLAND: geography and History; Geology; Trees, plants and Flowers; Animal Life; Ethnology in Outline ---AMONG the CHINESE: The People; Government and Justice; industrial and Social Life; Religious Life; Beginnings of Mission Work; First Native Preacher and His Church; Establishing Churches; How Bang-Kah Was Taken; Touring in the North; The Waiting Isles; Coming of the French ---The CONQUERED ABORIGINES: Pe-Po-Hoan Characteristics; Rice Farming; Mission Work; Trip Down the east Coast; A Sek-Hoan Mission; Life Among the Lam-Si-Hoan ---The MOUNTAIN SAVAGES: Life and Customs; With the Head Hunters ---AT HEADQUARTERS: Sketch of Tamsui; Training a Native Ministry; Oxford College; Native Workers for Native Women; Medical work and the Hospital; Foreigners and the Mission; With the English Presbyterians; Retrospect and Prospect. MacKay was sent to mainland China in 1871 by the Canadian Presbyterian Church but settled in Tamsui, Formosa --- natives destroyed several of his churches but his knowledge of endeared him to the native Taiwanese ---called "the blackbearded barbarian," he built a hospital, a school and established Oxford College, as well as 60 missions in 20 years. Seller Inventory # 210817c100
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