A Heart at Leisure from Itself: Caroline Macdonald of Japan
by Prang, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0774805226
- ISBN 13
- 9780774805223
- Seller
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Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: UBC Press,Canada. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 0774805226 . 347 pages. Index. Selected Bibliography. Footnotes. "Follows Caroline Macdonald's life and career, focusing primarily on her work in Japan on behalf of incarcerated criminals... (Macdonald) also established a social settlement, Shinrinkan - the Home of the Friendless Stranger - and was a mentor of labour union leaders and social democratic politicians." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked. Light overall wear with some bumping to bottom edge of boards. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; A Heart at Leisure from Itself: Caroline Macdonald of Japan 1874-1931 YWCA Young Women's Christian Associations Missionaries Biography Shinrinkan Prisoners Prison Reform .
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- Bookseller
- RareNonFiction.com (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 863g0031
- Title
- A Heart at Leisure from Itself: Caroline Macdonald of Japan
- Author
- Prang, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0774805226
- ISBN 13
- 9780774805223
- Publisher
- UBC Press,Canada
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- 0774805226, Heart, Leisure, From, Itself:, Caroline, Macdonald, Japan, 1874-1931, YWCA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Asia; Religion; Biography;
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