01266     2200181   4500090001100000101000800011102001500019200005800034210004200092215004900134330066600183600002900849606003600878676000800914700001600922801002100938995012500959  9401996  aeng  aGBbLondon  aBishop PattesonbLIVemartyr of MelanesiafJesse Page  aLondoncS. W. Partridge & Co.d[1899]  a1 vol.(160 p.)d19 cmcill. en noir et blanc  aMartyr of the islands is the biography of John Coreridge Patteson, first misionary Bishop of Melanesia, who was murdered on the tiny atoll of Nkapu in the Western Pacific in September, 1871. While still a boy at Eton, Patteson was deeply moved by a sermon preached by George Augustus Selwyn, the newlu appointed Bishop of New Zealand, and conceived the wish to become a missionary. Fourteen years later he left his quiet parish in Devon and went with Selwyn to New Zealand. So began the fascinating association betwwen these two very different characters, Selwyn domineering and indefatigable, Patteson gentle and diffident but in his way equally determined....  aPattesonbJohn Coleridge  aEvangélisationyMélanésie  a266  aPagebJesse  aFRbBBc20210810  bBBcBBf00147201jMAAk00147201m2021-08-10 00:00:00o1sMAAuSPE_Fonds LENORMAND u Livre très abîmé et incomplet