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Stony Ground

Shamans, Lamas, and Evangelicals: the English Missionaries in Siberia, by C.R. Bawden

John Derbyshire • January 24, 1985

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This is an account of Stallybrass and Swan, two protestant missionaries who spent the 1820s and 1830s trying to evangelise the Buryat Mongols of eastern Siberia. It is a dismal tale, very capably told, of dogged heroism ground down to nothing by misfortune, apathy and oriental politics. The diligence of the missionaries was stupendous. They... Read More

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