FENTON HALL, ERNEST GEORGE.
The Journals of Ernest George Fenton Hall: Pioneer & Hero.
London Christian Literature Crusade,1945. 11th edition. "George Fenton Hall, the subject of this memoir, was one of the first four Amazonian pioneers of the W.E.C.[Worldwide Evangelization Crusade]. The plunge into the trackless Amazon forest in search of a tribe of Indians taken by this intrepid young Crusader is the enthralling drama of this book..Fenton took risks..in carrying neither medicines nor mosquito-net with him.." His mission ended in tragedy, but others, inspired by Hall's example, penetrated to other tribes and made converts amongst both Brazilians and Indians. 18cms x 12cms. pp.154/ix(poem "Ecce Homo" by Fenton Hall), black & white photo frontispiece + several more pages of photos and maps. Paperback has portrait photo to front free endpaper which is exposed through an oval to the front cover, gilt title and RAF wings to front cover, slightly rubbed. VG.
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