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Travels and Adventures of the REV. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D.

Travels and Adventures of the REV. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D.

Wolff, Joseph

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion

Biographies GeneralGeneral ChristianityGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1108053726
ISBN13: 9781108053723
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 23 2012
Pages: 620
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Published in 1861, this work in the third person, dictated by Joseph Wolff (1795-1862) to friends, is an epic miscellany of stories. Wolff, the son of a rabbi, had a peripatetic Middle European childhood. He converted to Christianity in 1812, studying Near Eastern languages in Vienna and Tübingen, and theology in Rome - until he was expelled by the Inquisition for heretical views. He eventually moved to England, working for the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. Beginning his mission in the Middle East, he later travelled to Afghanistan, Ethiopia, India, and the United States, where he preached to Congress. His eventful career saw him variously shipwrecked, enslaved, and forced to walk without clothes for 600 miles following a robbery. In 1847 he settled more quietly in a Somerset vicarage. Though characteristically orientalist (and with possible embellishments), this work remains an invigorating depiction of a lifetime's adventure.

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