Call to Istanbul
de Padwick, Constance Evelyn
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- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Near Fine - Slight Chips
- Librería
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
London: Longmans Green & Co, 1958 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. Interesting biography of Lyman MacCallum. Born into a Canadian missionary family in Turkey he studied engineering at Queen's University and worked at mining camps in N. Ontario, then enlisted in the Canadian Army in August 1914. His lungs seriously damaged he returned to Istanbul in 1925 and was recruited by the American Bible Society. He was responsible for distributing Bibles in the Islamic Middle East, and was instrumental in publishing and printing a new translation of the Bible in Turkish when Ataturk's educational reforms of 1928 mandated the use of the new Roman style alphabet. [p 75-87, p 115-121] In 1937 he was put in charge if the affairs of both the American and the British & Foreign Bible Societies in Turkey..
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- Librería
- KALAMOS BOOKS
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 041436
- Título
- Call to Istanbul
- Autor
- Padwick, Constance Evelyn
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine - Slight Chips
- Edición
- 1st UK Edition.
- Editorial
- Longmans Green & Co
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1958
- Palabras clave
- BIBLES ISTANBUL MISSIONARIES TURKEY Lyman MacCallum CANADIANS IN TURKEY
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Biographies; Turkey; Christianity;
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