Against the devil's current. The life and times of Cyrus Hamlin [CİLTLİ]

STEVENS, MARCIA - MALCOLM STEVENS
Against the devil's current. The life and times of Cyrus Hamlin.
İstanbul: Boğaziçi University Press, 2012.
544 s., s/b resimli. 24x17 cm.
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“This is the life of a determined man whose name should be included in any list of outstanding individuals of the nineteenth century. Cyrus Hamlin was much more than a dedicated missionary. He was a revolutionary educationalist who wanted learning to be a balance between the skills of the hand and the skills of the mind…. No detail escaped this self-taught engineer who trained his students to bake bread which delighted the wounded from the Crimean War and who also invented primitive washing machines to deal with their blood and filth sodden uniforms unchanged since the battlefield. Deservedly, it was the whiff of newly baked bread that led Christopher Robert to land perchance at Bebek and so to meet Hamlin. From this encounter

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