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The Steamer Parish

The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier

The Steamer Parish( )
Author: Good, Charles M.
Series title:University of Chicago Geography Research Papers
ISBN:978-0-226-30282-9
Publication Date:Jan 2004
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $46.00
Book Description:

In the mid-1800s, a group of High Anglicans formed the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA). Inspired by Dr. David Livingstone, they felt a special calling to bring the Church, education, and medical care to rural Africans. To deliver services across a huge, remote area, the UMCA relied on steamer ships that were sent from England and then reassembled on Lake Malawi. By the mid-1920s, the UMCA had built a chain of mission stations that spread across four hundred miles....
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Book Details
Pages:440
Detailed Subjects: Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions
History / Africa / Central
Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / Boating
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.647 x 0.905 x 0.117 Inches
Book Weight:1.672 Pounds



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