Tales from the world tour
Subtitle: the travel writings of Mormon historian Andrew Jenson, 1895-97
By: edited by Reid L. Neilson and Riley M. Moffat
Contributors: Neilson, Reid Larkin, 1972- editor; Moffat, Riley Moore, 1947- editor
Publisher: The Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Deseret Book Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Provo, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780842528207
Subjects: Mormon Church; Church historians; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Church history; Travel; Biography; History
Description: "Jenson's global tour was an unprecedented adventure in Latter-day Saint history. Through his own hard work and the seeming hand of Providence, historian Andrew Jenson found his niche as a laborer in the cause of the Church. He pursued the goal of collecting and writing comprehensive, accurate, and useful histories of the Church with a rare passion. Acquiring, documenting, and publishing Church history was not purely a scholarly or historical pursuit for him: the untiring Danish-American believed it was a spriitual labor with eternal ramifications. He devoted his adult life to enlarging the institutional memory of the Church and protecting what he considered to be the sacred records."--Provided by the publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : enlarging the memory of the Latter-day Saints; title: Farewell to Utah : May 1895; title: The Sandwich, or Hawaiian, Islands : May 1895-July 1895; title: The Fijian Islands : July 1895-August 1895; title: The Friendly or Tongan Islands : August 1895-September 1895; title: The Navigator, or Samoan, Islands : September 1895-October 1895; title: New Zealand : October 1895-January 1896; title: The Society Islands, or French Polynesia : January 1896-April 1896; title: Down under in Australia : April 1896-May 1896; title: En route to the Holy Land : May 1896-June 1896; title: The Holy Land : June 1896-July 1896; title: Europe : July 1896-May 1897; title: Return to Utah : May 1897-July 1897; title: Appendix 1. Andrew Jenson, Mormon encyclopedist; title: Appendix 2. Mission histories from Andrew Jenson's encyclopedic history; title: Appendix 3. Andrew Jenson's letters published in the Deseret news, 1895-1898.