Journal of Three Voyages Along the Coast of China, in 1831, 1832 and 1833: With Notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands

by William Ellis and Karl Gützlaff

Book Overview

The Prussian-born Protestant missionary Karl Friedrich August G tzlaff (1803-51) sought to spread Christianity in the Far East. A gifted linguist, he sailed to Siam and worked on a translation of the Bible into Thai. The British missionary Robert Morrison had fired his interest in China, and G tzlaff later focused his evangelising efforts there, learning several dialects and distributing translated literature. The present work, featuring an introductory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108079415
• ISBN13: 9781108079419
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"