Item #13106 The New World of Central Africa, with a History of the First Christian Mission on the Congo. Mrs. H. Grattan Guinness, Fanny Emma.

The New World of Central Africa, with a History of the First Christian Mission on the Congo

New York: Fleming H. Revell.

Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, c. 1890. xix 537 pp, with many illustrations and 5 maps (two folding). Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Spine slightly toned, with one small tear at the base. Binding sound, text unmarked. The author was an active evangelist who preached to a mixed crowd while on a tour of America with her husband, Henry Grattan Guinness, a member of the famous Irish brewing family. Together the two founded the East London Institute for Home and Foreign Missions, a training school for lay missionaries, 1872. Here she offers a useful and well illustrated historical survey of missionary endeavor in central Africa.

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