BOOKS
Delayed, Manila

Publisher: Friends Foreign Missionary Society],


Title Details
  • Delayed, Manila
Publishers
  • [Canton, Ohio : Friends Foreign Missionary Society],1981.
Descriptions
  • [vi], 92 p. : ill.,22 x 18 cm.
Isbn
    (softbound)
Language
    English
Subjects
  • Nixon, Eva Anna.
  • Missionaries -- Philippines -- Biography.
  • Missionaries -- United States -- Biography.
  • Prisoners of war -- Philippines -- Manila -- Biography.
  • Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
  • Manila (Philippines) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
  • Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines).
Material Type
  • BK
  • Book
Place
  • Manila (Philippines)
  • Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines).
Location RHC
Item Call Number D 805 .P6 N59 1981
Status Available
Barcode 14068
International Standard Book Number
  • International Standard Book Number - (softbound)
Language Code
  • Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
Library Of Congress Call Number
  • Classification number - D 805 .P6 N59 1981
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Nixon, Eva Anna
Title Statement
  • Title - Delayed, Manila
  • Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Eva Anna Nixon
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint)
  • Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [Canton, Ohio :
  • Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Friends Foreign Missionary Society],
  • Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1981.
Physical Description
  • Extent - [vi], 92 p. :
  • Other physical details - ill.,
  • Dimensions - 22 x 18 cm.
Content Type
Media Type
Carrier Type
General Note
  • General note - On cover: "Delayed, Manila", 1941-1945. This book is from Anna Nixon's diary kept while she was a prisoner during World War II in Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, the Philippines.
Summary, Etc.
  • Summary, etc. - Personal account of an American missionary bound for India but caught on a ship (the SS President Grant) in Manila Bay by the war. Disembarked at Manila, she and her fellow missionaries wound up being interned in Santo Tomas for three years. This account is based on her diary. Nixon was with Evelyn Witthoff and Geraldine Chappell, who also wrote their own book. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
Language Note
  • Language note - English
Subject Personal Name
  • Personal name - Nixon, Eva Anna.
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Missionaries
  • Geographic subdivision - Philippines
  • General subdivision - Biography.
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Missionaries
  • Geographic subdivision - United States
  • General subdivision - Biography.
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
  • Geographic subdivision - Manila
  • General subdivision - Biography.
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
  • Geographic subdivision - United States
  • General subdivision - Biography.
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
  • General subdivision - Personal narratives, American.
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
  • General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Subject Geographic Name
  • Geographic name - Manila (Philippines)
  • General subdivision - Buildings, structures, etc.
  • Geographic name - Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines).