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| Data.No. | 596 |
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Annotation | COREA WITHOUT AND WITHIN
Hard cover,cloth .8 vo. 315 pages plus 2 maps and nine illustrations. First edition...............................................................The book contains not only the general history of Korea but also very important subjects on early protestant history. It mentions Rev. Charles Gutzlaff, who visited Korea in 1832 spent about a month and even offered to present the king with a Bible, but declined.
Also mentioned about John Ross and John McIntyre and their translation of the New Testament. This is the probably the earliest book mentioning Rijuite(Lee Soo Jung), who became a Christian in Japan and translated Scripures. And more detailed descriptions on opening to Christian missionaries..................................
'There are Dutch, French and American graves in Corea. Wherever a fragment of our national treasures lie, our hearts should be; and the object of the editor of this work is to interest American readers, and especially American Christians, in what the French priests call "the land of martyrs". The journal of Hendrik Hamel, who in 1653, on his way to Nagasaki, Japan, was shipwrecked on Quelpaert Island, is herewith reprinted with explanatory notes. These, with introductory and supplementary historical chapters, will, the editor trusts, give the reader a bird's-eye glance of Corea past and present, and views from without and within' (introduction). 'Griffis's reputation during his lifetime was as an earnest, sincere friend of the Japanese, but he was not a sycophant.
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| Author | GRIFFIS, William Elliot(Presbyterian Board of Publication) |
| Publisher | Westcott & Thomsons,Philada |
| Pub.Year(s) | 1885 |
| Language | English |
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