The legacy of James Gilmour.(missionary in Mongolia)

From: International Bulletin of Missionary Research | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Mongolia and the name of James Gilmour will forever be linked in the minds of many people because of his books Among the Mongols and More About the Mongols, which are anthropological observations of Mongolian society as he observed it in the latter half of the nineteenth century. In 1883 one reviewer of Among the Mongols wrote that it reminded him of Robinson Crusoe--yet Gilmour's was a true story, reflecting his long years in Mongolia with the London Missionary Society (LMS).

James Gilmour was born on February 12, 1843, in Cathkin, near Glasgow, Scotland. While studying at ...

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