Portland, Oregon: Binford & Mort Publishing. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. 083230445X . Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; xi, [1], 163, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 228 x 151mm. Illustrated. A biograph of Father Thomas Patrick Cunningham (1906-1959). Thomas Cunningham was born in New Zealand, his family having a dairy farm of about 100 acres near Mosgiel. "Cunnningham was deeply attached to his Eskimo practitioners, and inolved in their lives to the extent of learning the Eskimo language. [. . .] Cunningham was a world traveler and the most far-roaming northern missionary of his time. He served as a chaplain both in the U.S. Army and in the U.S. Air Force." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 21321
Title: "Father Tom" of the Arctic
Author: Renner, Louis L., S.J
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 083230445X
ISBN 13: 9780832304453
Publisher: Binford & Mort Publishing
Place of Publication: Portland, Oregon
Date Published: (1985)
Keywords: 083230445X

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