honsinger welthy (23 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

1926. Asia. Abingdon Press, NY. Good original green cloth with embossed mountains and clouds on the front, edge and corner wear and front hinge is slightly shaken 178p.

hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 30p. 2nd printing (1931) Wraps stained and corners lightly worn, staples rusted leaving a stain in the centerfold of text. Following these fraternal twins through their daily life, Fisher introduces life in China for a juvenile audience. Fisher, who spent time in China as a Methodist missionary, later founded the Literacy House, "a small, nonformal school in India that would combine literacy with agricultural training," which eventually led to the World Education organization's development. None found in OCLC (11/20) B&w illustrations and halftone photographs. (9-3/4"x6-7/8").

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Very Good condition, little bumped corners and edgewear in alike dust-jacket; The autobiography of the American missionary in India and China who founded Literacy Village; 8vo; 279 pages; FSA.

NY & Cincinnati (1926). Nicely gilt-dec cloth with illus of mountains on cover & spine, t.e.g.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. minimal wear, no dj.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Top of the World' is an evocative personal narrative by Welthy Honsinger Fisher, detailing a remarkable journey through the towering peaks of the Himalayas and into the remote landscapes of Tibet. Writing with the keen eye of both an explorer and a devoted missionary, Fisher captures the breathtaking beauty of the world's highest mountains and the unique cultural tapestry of the peoples residing in these isolated regions. The narrative provides a rare, early 20th-century perspective on a geographic area that remained largely inaccessible to Western travelers at the time.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this inspiring memoir, Welthy Honsinger Fisher, a humanitarian and peace activist, recounts her experiences traveling to war zones and disaster areas around the world to provide aid and support to those in need.

paperback. Zustand: Good. envelope of paper dolls, with outfits not cut out and tracing sheet still present. in original envelope. scarce.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. With an Introduction and an Epilogue by Welthy Honsinger Fisher. Foreword by J.B. Kripalani. (illustrator). Very Good (little tanning to covers; contents clean & tight; someone has put a tiny check mark in the margin at the beginning of the "Foreword"; little wear & tiny tears (small chip bottom of rear cover & at the top of the spine) d/j. Small 8vo., cream-colored cloth in dust jacket; 251 pages First Indian Edition. Signed by Welthy Honsinger Fisher [1879-1980 & wife of the author] on the dedication page. The book is dedicated to her. Honsinger was the American founder of World Education and World Literacy Canada. She was married to Frederick Bohn Fisher (the author), a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, missionary, and official in Methodist missionary and men's movements. She was an intellectual, activist, feminist and also wrote in Introduction to this book. She was requested by her friend Mohandas Gandhi to begin Literacy House outside of Lucknow, India, at the age of 73. The Fishers were well-acquainted with and respected by Gandhi and other prominent leaders of the Indian Independence movement. Her husband died in 1938 and this book was first published in America in 1932. One critic regarding this book as one ?that the British Government regards as important enough to be dangerous.?. Signed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 178 pages + frontis + 31 plates. Green cloth covers with snowy mountains illustration on spine and front board. No signatures. Contents: Foreword; The Plains of India; I Meet the Prime Minister of Tibet; The Lure of the Eternal Snows; The Retinue Leaves the Eyrie; Something New in Hotels; In God's Garden; "Saheb, the Heavens are Speaking"; Four Days in the Clouds; The Greatest View in the World; From the Heights of God to the Valleys of Men; Glossary. ; 8vo.

Pp. 176. With frontispiece and twenty-four illustrations made from photographs. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine lightly rubbed. Housed in illustrated dust-wrappers, spine ends, and outer corners chipped. Light water staining at the upper margin, most visible on the plates and binding. First very rare edition.Wealthy Honsinger Fischer (1879-1980), American Methodist educational missionary in China and India. She first came to China in 1906 and became headmistress of the Bao Lin school in Nanchang. She was committed to the idea of women's independence, and she wanted to encourage her young girls through their education to become new, modern Chinese women. This diary provides an interesting and sympathetic picture of life in China, then a country between the old traditional empire and the emerging modern Westernised China. Not in Robinson.

New York [1924], Abingdon. Brown cloth spine over boards, very good,minor nicks to covers, 176p. 25 b.w. photos.SCARCE The author's 10 year diary while in the interior of China, travelling to temples, the Yangtze, etc. Primary source beginning with her stay in the 1920's.

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. 178, [2]; frontispiece and 31 plates after photographs by the author; green pictorial cloth; fine in very good dust jacket with light soiling, some shallow chipping and closed tears, and price-clipped inner panel. Fisher was an educator, feminist, and traveler. She was one of the founders of World Education, and the only American placed on an Indian postage stamp. From the jacket: "This volume is the record of a remarkable journey which Bishop and Mrs. Fisher took to the mountain fastnesses of the Himalayas. Using their own little shack in Darjeeling. they started back, following for a while the route of the Everest climbers, and went on to spend some time with the lamas of the lamassaries of Sikhim and Nepal to the very border of Tibet." Yakushi F97.

New York and Cincinnati: The Abingdon Press. [1924]. 8vo. Original cloth-backed illustrated boards, lettered in gilt; pp. 176, plates after photographs; two corners lightly rubbed, otherwise very good with contemporary ownership inscription to front fly-leaf.Very rare first edition. Welthy Honsinger Fisher was US American educationalist and ran international literacy campaigns right up to one year before her death at the age of 101 in 1980. "Welthy Honsinger was born in Rome, New York, and grew up hoping to be an opera singer. But upon hearing a missionary speaker, Honsinger discarded her plan, completed her education as a teacher, and sailed to China in 1906. As headmistress of the Bao Lin school in Nanchang until 1917, she promoted higher academic standards and Chinese leadership [of the school]" (Missiology, online). She always promoted indeginous teachers and school leaders, which led to clashes with her Methodist superiors. In 1947, Gandhi asked her to work for India's villages, which she did for many years. In this work she gives an initimate and sympathetic image of life in China, inbetween the old world of the Empire and the emerging republican, more Westernized China.