Fifty-Three Years in Syria / / Henry Harris Jessup.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Jessup, Henry Harris,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Kiraz Historic Travels Archive ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (498 p.)

A massive undertaking, this widely read memoir of an American missionary in Syria and Lebanon during the nineteenth century has become a standard reference. Providing background and color for his own work, Jessup helps the reader understand some of the tragic incidents he faced, but also the optimistic sense of success that would eventually arise from the work he had done. Encompassing the spirit of travel and adventure characterized by the Gorgias Historic Travels in the Cradle of Civilization, this two-volume recollection will find avid readers from missions-minded laity and historians of Syria and Lebanon alike.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- XIX Notable Visitors and Converts -- XX A Cholera Year -- XXI Helps and Hindrances -- XXII Mission Schools -- XXIII Sketches (1887) -- XXIV Three Years of Progress (1888) -- XXV Marking Time -- XXVI A New Century Dawns (1899-1900) -- XXVII The Whitening Fields (1901-1902) -- XXVIII My Latest Furlough- Years 1903-1904 -- XXIX Jubilee Times (1905-1907) -- XXX What Shall the Harvest Be? - January 1908 - May 1909 -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Appendix IV -- Appendix V -- Appendix VI -- Appendix VII -- Index