Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D.
Late Missionary to the Jews and Muhammadans in Persia, Bokhara, Cashmeer, etc.

An invigorating 1861 account of a Jewish Christian convert's missionary work in the Middle East, India, Africa and the USA.

Joseph Wolff (Author)

9781108053723, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 August 2012

620 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.5 cm, 0.78 kg

Published in 1861, this work in the third person, dictated by Joseph Wolff (1795–1862) to friends, is an epic miscellany of stories. Wolff, the son of a rabbi, had a peripatetic Middle European childhood. He converted to Christianity in 1812, studying Near Eastern languages in Vienna and Tübingen, and theology in Rome - until he was expelled by the Inquisition for heretical views. He eventually moved to England, working for the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. Beginning his mission in the Middle East, he later travelled to Afghanistan, Ethiopia, India, and the United States, where he preached to Congress. His eventful career saw him variously shipwrecked, enslaved, and forced to walk without clothes for 600 miles following a robbery. In 1847 he settled more quietly in a Somerset vicarage. Though characteristically orientalist (and with possible embellishments), this work remains an invigorating depiction of a lifetime's adventure.

Preface
1. Birth
2. State of religion at Vienna
3. Prince Hohenlohe and his doings
4. Rome and its society
5. Returns to Vienna
6. Gibraltar
7. Desert
8. Jerusalem
9. Lady Hester Stanhope and her prophet
10. Mesopotamia
11. Arrives at Bagdad
12. Ispahan
13. Leaves Dublin for London
14. Sir Charles Napier
15. The Levant
16. Advance towards Bokhara
17. Burchund
18. Meshed the Holy
19. Bokhara
20. Dangers of the way
21. The Punjaub and Sikhs
22. Sir Jeremiah and Lady Bryant
23. Cashmere
24. Delhi
25. Route from Buxur to Calcutta
26. Hyderabad
27. Captain Moore, R.N.
28. Monks at Goa
29. Summary of eastern missions
30. Detained in Abyssinia by the illness of Gobat
31. Bombay
32. Obligation to British officers
33. Route from Erzoom to Teheran
34. Route through Khorassan to Bokhara in clerical dress
35. Abd-ul-Samut-Khan
36. Escape from Bokhara.

Subject Areas: Church history [HRCC2]