The Missionary Heroine of Calabar by Esther E. Enock

The Missionary Heroine of Calabar

A Story of Mary Slessor

by Esther E. Enock

Pickering & Inglis, 1947, black and white illustrations, sepia photographic frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, presentation plate on front endpaper, age toned pages, some foxing, foxing to fore edges, a little marking and discolouration to covers and spine, price-clipped dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping and tears to edges and corners (see photographs)

“This short memoir gives the essence of the inspiring record of the remarkable woman, whose heroic service is memorialised in a window in the Victoria Art Gallery, Dundee.
In 1874 came news of the Home-call of Dr. Livingstone, and the great wave of missionary enthusiasm which stirred the land set aflame the spark which for years had smouldered in Mary Slessor’s heart. It blazed up and stirred her to action, and in 1876 she set sail from Liverpool for Africa to go forward to preach the Salvation that is in Christ where it had seldom or never been preached.”