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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