A Jesuit Missionary in Eighteenth-Century Sonora
Subtitle: The Family Correspondence of Philipp Segesser
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: Apr 01, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780826354242
Description: "In the very last year of the seventeenth century a ten-year-old boy in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland, announced to his parents that he wanted to become a Jesuit missionary and save souls in faraway lands. Philipp Segesser got his wish when he was sent to northwestern Mexico in 1731. For the next thirty years he carried on an active correspondence with his family and religious affiliates. His letters home, translated and edited in this fascinating book, provide a frank and intimate view of missionary life on the remote northwestern frontier of New Spain. The editor's introduction sets the letters in biographical and historical context"--
Notes: Source title: A Jesuit Missionary in Eighteenth-Century Sonora: The Family Correspondence of Philipp Segesser