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    Reference 3930 (2158)
    Category Other travel
    Author Robson, W
    Title James Chalmers Missionary and Explorer of Rarotonga and New Guinea
    Publishing Information S W Partridge, no date circa 1903.
    Description 1903 New edition, the last chapter written by Frank Broad. 176 pages. Front end paper missing, no date but presumed 1903. Front hinge split, age toning to pages. Shelf wear, contents clean. A Scottish Congregationalist missionary who explored the southwest Pacific. Ordained in 1865, Chalmers was sent by the London Missionary Society to Rarotonga in 1866. "Having facilitated the establishment of British rule in northern New Guinea (1888), Chalmers strove to form an indigenous church free of westernised culture but was killed and eaten by cannibals on an island off the south coast of Papua."Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    Price £2.50
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