Pearl S. Buck's profoundly touching memoir of her zealous Southern Presbyterian missionary father, Absalom Sydenstricker. He set off for China in 1880 and spent most of the next half century there until his death in 1931. In the poor, hostile interior, he made long preaching trips through lands convulsed by famine, banditry, and revolution.
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Pearl S. Buck's profoundly touching memoir of her zealous Southern Presbyterian missionary father, Absalom Sydenstricker. He set off for China in 1880 and spent most of the next half century there until his death in 1931. In the poor, hostile interior, he made long preaching trips through lands convulsed by famine, banditry, and revolution.
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Good. Book FIRST PRINTING in this edition. Buck's classic historical novel of old China and missionaries struggling to spread the Gospel amidst famine, war, corruption, and general turmoil, presenting a human face to the Chinese and to Asians in general. Wraps, 197pp., light wear to covers, blank ffep excised. A good reading copy. Size: 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall.
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Good. No Jacket. Book Gold-stamped embossed deep siena cloth. Wear & fraying at spine ends, aged endpapers. Solid. Clean text. Part of a uniform set. 38005 shelf.