Reluctant Mission: The Anglican Church in Papua New Guinea 1891 - 1942 by David Wetherell - 1977

St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition, 1977. Hardcover in dust jacket, 430 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket, foxing or age-toning to the page-edges, minor rubbing to the tips of the book's covers, some wear to the edges of the dust jacket including creasing at the tips. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.

University of Queensland Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. 30 illustrations. 3 maps. 430p. Measures 6x9 inches. First edition. This book draws on a wide range of hitherto unpublished sources of the early missionaries and their families and Papuan sources in tracing the response of Papuan villagers to the missionary intrusion. Thus, the author brings to light a fascinating aspect of the colonial period in the history of Papua New Guinea.

St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1977 F/F-. 8vo. original blue boards in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed, slight sunning to spine); pp. xiv, 430, with illustrations. A near fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. F/F-.

St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press. 1977. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. year written on 1st blank page, white-out over name on 1st blank page. xiv, 430 p., illustrations, bibliography, index. . A 'noble race', 'courteous gentlemen', 'fuzzy wuzzy angels', 'shining examples of the power of faith'--these were some of the exalted phrases used by Christian missionaries in their attempt to fashion the Papuan people into morally superior beings enjoying spiritual immunity from Western corruption and wealth. But the descriptions also revealed an attempt to gloss over the white man's sense of guilt and shame for his treatment of the black races. For fifty years before World War 11, most Europeans along the 400 kilometres of coast in north-eastern Papua were Anglican missionaries. This book is the compelling story of the meeting between the Papuan people and the Christian missionaries who came to convert them. The Anglican church had always been lukewarm about setting up… Read More