A Jesuit Missionary in Eighteenth-Century Sonora: The Family Correspondence of Philipp Segesser

Author/Contributor(s):	Thompson, Raymond H.; Zimmt, Werner S.; Robert, Dahlquist E.
Publisher:	UNM Press
Date:	4/1/2014
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.