The Journal of William Shaw by Hammond-Tooke, W.D. (editor)

(Cape Town: A.A. Balkema for Rhodes University, 1972). The Graham's Town Series Number 2. 8vo; original dark brown cloth, with gilt device to upper cover, and spine lettered in gilt; dustwrapper; tinted top edge; pp. (viii) + 220, incl. index; monochrome plates. Merest trace of wear to dustwrapper. Very good condition. "The name of William Shaw, minister to the 1820 British Settlers in South Africa and missionary statesman, ranks in historical significance with those of David Livingstone and Robert Moffatt. He was an outstanding missionary and at the same time acted as spiritual guide and adviser to the settlers in a period of considerable trials and problems. The first part of this journal covers the period 1820-21 when Shaw was at Salem, laying the foundations of Methodism among the Settlers. He gives detailed descriptions of the sheer physical labour, the disappointments and joys of this task. The second period, 1827-29, covers his work at Wensleyville among the Gqunukhwebe, the first of the chain of mission stations, stretching from the Eastern Cape to Natal, which was to be this missionary-statesman's abiding memorial. It is an invaluable account of the earliest impact of mission teaching on a pagan society." .