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Tales from the world tour : the 1895-1897 travel writings of Mormon historian Andrew Jenson /
- Title
- Tales from the world tour : the 1895-1897 travel writings of Mormon historian Andrew Jenson / edited by Reid L. Neilson and Riley M. Moffat.
- Author
- Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941,
- Publication
- Provo, Utah : The Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University ; Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company, [2012]
- ©2012
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- Description
- x, 446 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 x 28 cm
- Summary
- "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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Travelers' writings.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : enlarging the memory of the Latter-day Saints -- Farewell to Utah : May 1895 -- The Sandwich, or Hawaiian, Islands : May 1895-July 1895 -- The Fijian Islands : July 1895-August 1895 -- The Friendly or Tongan Islands : August 1895-September 1895 -- The Navigator, or Samoan, Islands : September 1895-October 1895 -- New Zealand : October 1895-January 1896 -- The Society Islands, or French Polynesia : January 1896-April 1896 -- Down under in Australia : April 1896-May 1896 -- En route to the Holy Land : May 1896-June 1896 -- The Holy Land : June 1896-July 1896 -- Europe : July 1896-May 1897 -- Return to Utah : May 1897-July 1897 -- Appendix 1. Andrew Jenson, Mormon encyclopedist -- Appendix 2. Mission histories from Andrew Jenson's encyclopedic history -- Appendix 3. Andrew Jenson's letters published in the Deseret news, 1895-1898.
- ISBN
- 9780842528207 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- 0842528202 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012017955
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library