The Wise Man From the West : Matteo Ricci and his Mission to China

Cronin, Vincent

ISBN 10: 0006267491 / ISBN 13: 9780006267492

Published by Fount/harpercollins (edition ), 1984

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wise Man From the West : Matteo Ricci and his Mission to China
• Publisher: Fount/harpercollins (edition )
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006267491
• ISBN 13: 9780006267492
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

The Wise Man From the West : Matteo Ricci and his Mission to China [paperback] Cronin, Vincent [Jan 01, 1984]

About the Author

Vincent Cronin, son of the Scottish novelist, A J Cronin is a doyen of English letters. His book The Last Migration, which won the Heinemann Award, was based on his own journey with the Gashgai of southern Iran. He widened his reputation with his outstanding biographies of Christianity's first missionaries to India (A Pearl to India: the Life of Roberto de Nobili) and to China (The Wise Man from the West: Matteo Ricci and his Mission to China), and a range of later biographies - of Napoleon, Catherine the Great, Louis (XVI) and Antoinette, and his masterly Four Women in Search of an Ideal (Caroline de Berry, Marie D'Agoult, Eve Hanska and Marie Bashkirtseff). Vincent Cronin lives in Brittany.