A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China: A Personal Record of God's Delivering Power from the Hands of the Imperial Boxers of Shan-Si.    

Archibald Edward Glover (1859–1954)  

Published in London by Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. Reprint of the 1904 original. Recased, though retaining the original cloth. Lacking the front endpaper. Prev owner's plate to the inner cover (Francis E B Witts), with older penned name to the upper fep. Block with some spotting to the closed edges. Age toning to the pages, as expected. All full and half page plates present, and as called for. Good/-. 

Of the missionaries and their children martyred before the Boxer Rising was suppressed, after the landing of an International Expeditionary Force and heavy fighting around Peking, seventy-nine were of the China Inland Mission. One of the survivors was the Reverend Archibald Glover, though his wife and youngest daughter were both killed. 

Archibald Edward Glover (1859–1954) was a British Protestant Christian missionary in China. He served with the China Inland Mission from 1896 to 1900, when he returned to England with his two children after his wife and youngest daughter died during their flight from the Boxer Rebellion. His memoir 'A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China' was published in 1904 and was widely read in the United States. It went through 22 printings and, according to Andrew T. Kaiser, "colored and even defined the Boxer events for generations of Western readers."

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