A Jesuit Missionary In Eighteenth-Century Sonora: The Family Correspondence Of Philipp Segesser

The Swiss Jesuit missionary Philipp Segesser was sent to northwestern Mexico in 1731. His letters home, translated and edited in this fascinating book, provide a frank and intimate view of missionary life on the remote northwestern frontier of New Spain.

• | Author: Philipp Segesser (S.J.)
• | Publisher: University Of New Mexico Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 376 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0826354246
• | ISBN-13: 9780826354242