Bøger af William Butler

The lure of paradise was unmistakable, and Bill Butler was on a quest to find it with his wife Simonne - riding the Pacific currents on their sloop Siboney, with a world of possibilities ahead. This title tells a tale of their battles against nature, despair, and their own demons.

Its people, castes, thugs and fakirs; its religions, mythology, principle monuments, palaces and mausoleums, together with the incidents of the Great Sepoy Rebellion and its results to Christianity and civilization. Also contains a map of India, forty-two illustrations, statistical tables of Christian missions and a glossary of Indian terms used in this work and in missionary correspondence.

This book examines the framework in which Irish auxiliary forces, part-time soldiers of the British Army, have existed alongside their regular army counterparts and how they have interacted with wider society. -- .