Tahiti : Receiving the Gospel
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1832.
Illustrated by Frontispiece and one plate. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #12522
Spine covering missing, edgeworn, random foxing, two owner's signatures - one dated 1837, still serviceable and solid hardcover. ; Second of three volumes on the Christianization of Tahiti, with the third stated as forthcoming. Recounts the activities of missionaries and the 1819 conversion of King Pomare II to the Reformed tradition brought to the islands by the London Missionary Society. Apparently based on William Ellis, Polynesian Researches (1831). Marbled boards. A fascinating account of the impact of Western missionaries on Tahitian society, and the destruction of traditional beliefs. ; 195 pages.
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