Author: DUBACH-VISCHER, M.,
Title: Mit Boot und Stethoskop. Das Ehepaar Dr. med. M. und B. Vischer-Mylius in Borneo von 1928 bis 1943. Orig. edn.
Description: Basel, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, 1998. orig. thin stiff coloured wraps. designed by Kurt Paulette. 373pp. Many ills. in text and full-page, of which portrs., footnotes, diagrams depict logistics and organization of the Basler Mission and other missionary organizations in South-Borneo, british Borneo and Indonesia, register of personal names, list of sources consulted, glossary of indonesian and japanese words and expressions, sketch-maps of Southern- and British Borneo at very end with elucidation. A detailed account of the life and times of the couple M. and B. Vischer-Mylius, medical missionaries to the [then] dutch territory of Borneo, 1928-1943, incl. extensive reports on the progress of mission, education of the indigenous population, the anymosity towards medical missionaries. The couple Visscher-Mylius have been sent-out to Borneo by the Basle Missionary Organization. They were tried by the japanese occupying administration and executed in 1943. Paperback edn. (as orig. publ.). A very good copy.

Keywords: religion medical mission basler mission christianization dayak borneo kalimantant history japanese occupation colonialism religion indonesia southeast asia