TY - BOOK ID - 78143891 TI - A Jesuit missionary in eighteenth-century Sonora : the family correspondence of Philipp Segesser AU - Segesser, Philipp AU - Thompson, Raymond H. AU - Zimmt, Werner S. AU - Dahlquist, Robert E. PY - 2014 SN - 0826354254 9780826354259 9780826354242 0826354246 PB - Albuquerque, New Mexico : University of New Mexico Press, DB - UniCat KW - HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico. KW - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX). KW - Missionaries KW - Religious adherents KW - Segesser, Philipp, KW - Segesser, Felipe, KW - Jesuits KW - イエズス会 KW - カトリック イエズス会 KW - Compagnie de Jésus KW - Compañia de Jesus KW - Gesellschaft Jesu KW - Jesuitas KW - Jesuiten KW - Jesuiti KW - Jezuïten KW - Jésuites KW - Paters Jezuïten KW - Societeit van Jezus KW - Society of Jesus KW - Missions KW - History. KW - Sageser family KW - Segesser family UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143891 AB - "In the very last year of the seventeenth century a ten-year-old boy in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland, announced to his parents that he wanted to become a Jesuit missionary and save souls in faraway lands. Philipp Segesser got his wish when he was sent to northwestern Mexico in 1731. For the next thirty years he carried on an active correspondence with his family and religious affiliates. 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. The editor's introduction sets the letters in biographical and historical context"-- ER -