Published by Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2001., 2001
ISBN 10: 0824823958 ISBN 13: 9780824823955
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: As New. Color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; [1st printing] ; xliii, 157 pp. : illustrated ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0824823958 ; LCCN: 00-64899 ; "Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell arrived in Northern Thailand in 1912, the young wife of a recently ordained Presbyterian m issionary. Thousands of miles lay between her and her grandparents' farm in Nova Scotia, where she had been born and raised. But over the next sixteen years, Thailand became her beloved new home. She was awed by its physical beauty--the great rivers , the orchid-studded hills--and became devoted to its people. Beginning as a nurse, she eventually directed a small hospital. There she discovered her talent for organization and hard work. She also found, to her grief, that her work separated her f rom her children. Mission to Siam casts unexpected light on colonialism, the Asia missions, and the convulsive changes that a newly united Thailand underwent in the early twentieth century." ; AS NEW. Book.