8vo; pictorial boards; pp. (x) + xi + (iii) + 489, incl. index; contemporary photographs and artwork; folding map and folding genealogical table in endpocket. Earlier owner's book label to front free endpaper. Near-fine condition.
"In 1843, Emma Hone, a young English governess, was swept by evangelical enthusiasm into the African mission field. Waiting in Cape Town for a suitable posting, she met the charismatic Carl Hugo Hahn, a missionary of the Rhenish Mission Society, who was on the point of leaving for the interior of what is today Namibia to establish a station in that remote and inhospitable land. After only a few days' acquaintance and hardly speaking one another's languages, they married and travelled to Hereroland, where Emma was one of the first European women the people had seen. ... This record of the pioneer times of the Rhenish Mission Society's activities in Namibia is supplemented by numerous footnotes and contemporary photographs and prints, and biographical details are provided on every traceable person mentioned in the letters."
- Jacket Condition: Near-fine
- Binding Condition: Near-fine
- Overall Condition: Near-fine
- Size: 8vo
- Sold By: Christison Rare Books
- Contact Person: Lindsay Christison
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 073 290 2830 / 041 371 4844
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- Trade Associations: SABDA, IOBA
