A Jesuit Missionary in Eighteenth-Century Sonora
The Family Correspondence of Philipp Segesser
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Publication
2014-04-01 - University of New Mexico Press
Language
English
Word Count
94,000 words, Guess
Page Count
376 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27537071M
- ISBN-139780826354242
- ISBN-100826354246
- OCLC Control Number864501725
- Library of Congress Control Number2013038865
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- Amazon0826354246
Classifications
- LCCBX4705.S5195A4 2014
- LCCBX4705.S5195 A4 2014
Description
"In the very last year of the seventeenth century a ten-year-old boy in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland, announced to his parents that he wanted to become a Jesuit missionary and save souls in faraway lands. Philipp Segesser got his wish when he was sent to northwestern Mexico in 1731. For the next thirty years he carried on an active correspondence with his family and religious affiliates. His letters home, translated and edited in this fascinating book, provide a frank and intimate view of missionary life on the remote northwestern frontier of New Spain. The editor's introduction sets the letters in biographical and historical context"--
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