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Worth the price

Publisher: Review and Herald Pub. Assoc.,


Title Details
  • Worth the price
Publishers
  • Washington, D.C. : Review and Herald Pub. Assoc.,c1958.
Descriptions
  • 319 p. : ill.,22 x 16 cm.
Isbn
    (hardbound)
Language
    English
Subjects
  • Seventh-Day Adventists -- Missions.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Material Type
  • BK
  • Book
Location RHC
Item Call Number D 805 .J3 O3
Status Available
Barcode 13684
International Standard Book Number
  • International Standard Book Number - (hardbound)
Language Code
  • Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Ogle, Mary S.
Title Statement
  • Title - Worth the price
  • Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Mary S. Ogle ; illustrations by Stanley Dunlap, Jr.
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint)
  • Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Washington, D.C. :
  • Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Review and Herald Pub. Assoc.,
  • Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1958.
Physical Description
  • Extent - 319 p. :
  • Other physical details - ill.,
  • Dimensions - 22 x 16 cm.
Content Type
Media Type
Carrier Type
Summary, Etc.
  • Summary, etc. - Autobiography of an American Protestant missionary, focusing on her experiences in Asia: in Japan and Hong Kong while en route to China; in China proper from 1938 to April 1941, when she was sent to the Philippines. She moved to Baguio, where she was caught when the war began. She and her colleagues were interned in Camp John Hay at first, and later in Camp Holmes. She describes life in camp and how her religious group (Seventh-Day Adventist) was able to maintain its activities. She also discusses camp work, food, entertainment, social life, sickness and disease, the move to Bilibid Prison in Manila, liberation and repatriation to the US. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
Language Note
  • Language note - English
Subject Corporate Name
  • Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Seventh-Day Adventists
  • General subdivision - Missions.
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
  • General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.