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Padwick, Constance Evelyn

Call to Istanbul

Longmans Green & Co, 1958

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Year of publication
1958
Place of printing
London
Author
Padwick, Constance Evelyn
Publishers
Longmans Green & Co
Edition
1st UK Edition.
Keyword
BIBLES ISTANBUL MISSIONARIES TURKEY Lyman MacCallum CANADIANS IN, TURKEY
Cover description
Near Fine - Slight Chips
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

Interesting biography of Lyman MacCallum. Born into a Canadian missionary family in Turkey he studied engineering at Queen's University and worked at mining camps in N. Ontario, then enlisted in the Canadian Army in August 1914. His lungs seriously damaged he returned to Istanbul in 1925 and was recruited by the American Bible Society. He was responsible for distributing Bibles in the Islamic Middle East, and was instrumental in publishing and printing a new translation of the Bible in Turkish when Ataturk's educational reforms of 1928 mandated the use of the new Roman style alphabet. [p 75-87, p 115-121] In 1937 he was put in charge if the affairs of both the American and the British & Foreign Bible Societies in Turkey.