The World Through a Woman's Eyes 1896 Jessie A Ackermann ~ WCTU World Missionary ~Travel/Travelogue ~Hawaii, East Asia, Alaska, South Africa

Title: The World Through a Woman's Eyes
Author: Jessie A. Ackermann / Introduction by William E. [Eleroy] Curtis
Publication: Chicago: [published by the author], 1896

Description: Light brown cloth over boards with lettering on spine and front cover stamped in dark brown. Light wear to covers; corners pushed. Inner hinges good. Lightly penciled note on the reverse of the frontispiece, else clean and unmarked. Frontispiece portrait of Ackermann (with tissue guard) plus 28 illustrated plates. 325 pages.

Jessie A. Ackermann's record of eight years, 1888-1895, of world travel as a WCTU missionary, paying particular attention to her impressions of women's social position in each country visited. She records her observations from Alaska, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), New Zealand and Tasmania, Japan, China, Siam (Thailand), Java, Burma, and South Africa. She includes a detailed account of her visit to the home of the South African author, Olive Schreiner. Most of the papers comprised in this book appeared in the Ladies's Home Companion during the year 1895.

Jessie A. Ackermann (1857-1951) was appointed as the second Round-the-World Missionary of the WCTU in October 1888. She was a powerful advocate for the equal political, legal and property rights of women and also served as the superintendent of the WCTU's anti-opium department.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Keywords: travelogue, travel, voyages, around the world, WCTU, Women's Christian Temperance Union, missionary, missionaries, Asia, reformers, Alaska, Sandwich Islands, Hawaii, New Zealand, Tasmania, Japan, China, Siam, Thailand, Java, Burma, South Africa, Olive Schreiner,