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Douthwaite of the Double Dragon
Added: (Fri Apr 20 2007)
Press Release: Immediate
Douthwaite of the Double Dragon by John D Owen and Diana C Morgan, published by Braiswick, ISBN 978-1-898030-13-3, paperback, 156 pp, �9.95, manufactured on demand, printed by Lightning Source, available through Bertrams and Gardners. Biography of a medical missionary in China 1875-1899.
Douthwaite of the Double Dragon is an account of a life spent for man and God. The book is based partly on academic research but principally on a collection of letters from the Douthwaite family archive. These give intimate glimpses of life in a missionary household, and allow us to share some of Douthwaite�s hopes and doubts, joys and sorrows.
After an unhappy childhood and misspent youth, Douthwaite was converted to Christianity and went to China as a medical missionary. After four years as a pioneering evangelist, Douthwaite was appointed to be the first superintendent of the Chefoo mission. He was a strong advocate for using service to the native population as a means of promoting Christianity, and his skills as an administrator were invaluable in developing medical and educational services. His premature death from dysentery at the age of 51 prevented him from achieving greater things.
John D Owen, a retired medical practioner who lives in Colchester, Essex, discovered Douthwaite as a distant relative. Diana C Morgan, who lives in Birchington, Kent is the grand daughter of Dr Arthur Douthwaite. Her mother, Isabel, was born in Chefoo in 1893, the third daughter of Dr Douthwaite's wife, Constance.
Author interviews and further information from Eileen Aldous at sales@braiswick.com, telephone 01394 273200, mobile 07889 437319. See www.braiswick.com for more information. Title is now available as POD through major distributors, including Bertrams and Gardners.