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A Jesuit Missionary in Eighteenth-Century Sonora : The Family Correspondence of Philipp Segesser /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Segesser, Philipp, 1689-1761 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Thompson, Raymond H. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; The Missionary Career of Philipp Anton Segesser; About the Translation; Letters from Ingolstadt (1-9); Letters from Altötting, Straubing, and Neuburg an der Donau (10-14); Letters from Hochdorf, Constance, and Ellwangen (15-20); Letters from Genoa (21-22); Letters from Seville (23-36); Letters from Puerto de Santa María (37-41); Letters from Havana (42-44); Letters from Tepotzotlán and Durango (45-46); Letters from San Ignacio, San Xavier, and Guevavi (47-52); Letters from Tecoripa (53-61); Letters from Ures (62-76). 
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