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Richardson, E. Letters from a Distant Shore
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| Title: | Letters from a Distant Shore | | Subtitle: | The Journal of Sarah Ann Breath | | Series: | Gorgias Ottoman Travelers 1 | | Availability: | In Print | | Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
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| Edited by E. Richardson | | ISBN: | 978-1-59333-783-4 | | Availability: | In Print | | Publication Date: | 2/2009 | | Language: | English | | Format: | Hardback, Black, 6 x 9 in | | Pages: | 108 |
In 1849, within days of her marriage to missionary printer Edward Breath, Sarah Ann Breath joined her husband on the Bark Ionia to begin a four month journey to Oroomiah (modern Urumia), Persia. Her narrative, written in a highly descriptive flowing prose, describes the journey by sea, steamer and caravan to a Nestorian community in northwest Persia where the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions had established a press and a school.
Breath’s journal describes the lengthy journey with careful attention to the Nestorian, Assyrian, and Kurdish communities she encountered. She records narrative images of Malta and Constantinople, describes the Sultan of Turkey on his way to morning prayers, and the difficulties of travel by mule over the mountains separating Turkey from Iran. For Breath, the trip was a consummate Asian journey that would transform her sensibilities, challenge her awareness of cultural differences and plunge her into a world whose dangers and opportunities she could never have imagined. In providing this previously unpublished account, Allen Richardson includes both annotations as well as an introductory chapter which includes a description of life in Oroomiah by Breath’s surviving daughter, Anna.
E. Allen Richardson is Professor of Religious Studies at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in Oriental Studies from the University of Arizona and has written extensively in the area of American religious pluralism. Richardson is a research affiliate of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. | |
| | Richardson, E. Letters from a Distant Shore | | ISBN: | 978-1-59333-783-4 | | Weight: | 1 LBS. | | Price: | $100.00 | | To get the 5% Gorgias BiblioPerks™ discount, simply login. | |
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