George Hunter, Apostle of Turkestan de Cable, M. ; French, F - 1948

China Inland Mission, London, first edition, 1948. Cloth, title-page in purple and black, 8vo, 23 cm,. 107 pp, map endpapers, plates, ills. From the blurb - "George Hunter has become a legendary figure, so closely and for so long has he been associated with Central Asia, He became part of it, and the Central Asian picture would be incomplete without him. He reached China in 1889, returning to England for the first and only time in 1900, and after fifty-seven years of missionary service in the China Inland Mission he died on December 20th, 1946, in a city of the Province of Kansu. Though he was first and foremost a missionary he was also a great explorer, and knew Turkestan as no other Westerner knew it. He died as he lived, a lonely man, far from his fellow-countrymen. He was one of the last great pioneer missionaries. It is regrettable that he has not passed on more of the accumulated knowledge which he possessed but his is the honour which he most coveted, not the M.B.E. which the King was graciously pleased to grant him, but that of being a translator of the Scriptures into the language of some remote tribes who otherwise would not yet have had them. Good in used and somewhat browned and chipped dustwrapper.