Mildred Cable (1878–1952)
Autor de The Gobi Desert
Sobre El Autor
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) Mildred Cable's books are often co-authored by Francesca French.
There are many combined Mildred Cable and Francesca French author entries. Works appearing on this combined author page could be edited so that they appear on the individual author's pages.
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1878-02-21
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1952-04-30
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- England
UK - País (para mapa)
- England
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- China
- Educación
- London University
- Ocupaciones
- missionary
teacher
travel writer - Relaciones
- French, Francesca (companion)
- Biografía breve
- Alice Mildred Cable was born in Guildford, England. She decided at age 15 to become a Christian missionary, and over the objections of her parents, went to London to train as a pharmacist. In 1901, she joined the China Inland Mission and took ship for China, despite the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion, leaving behind a fiancé who was reluctant to take the risk. In China, she met Evangeline (Eva) French, who became her senior missionary. Together they opened a girls’ school in Huozhou and proselytized in the surrounding villages.
In 1908, Mildred and Eva returned to Britain on furlough, and met up with Eva’s younger sister, Francesca French, who decided to join them in China. The three women became known as "The Trio" and worked together for the rest of their lives. In 1923, they set out on an itinerant ministry, traveling 1,000 miles along the Silk Road from Gansu province to Xinjiang province, a journey that took nine months. The following year, they moved up the Silk Road and settled in Jiuquan, the last town in China before the start of the Gobi Desert. They later followed the Silk Road northwest across the Gobi Desert and on to the Russian border. After another furlough in the UK, they returned to travel and work in Tibet and Mongolia. After 1936, they were unable to return to Asia and retired to Dorset, England, where they wrote numerous books and articles about their experiences. In 1943, they published The Gobi Desert: The Adventures of Three Women Travelling Across the Gobi Desert in the 1920s, which is still recommended in guidebooks today. - Aviso de desambiguación
- Mildred Cable's books are often co-authored by Francesca French.
There are many combined Mildred Cable and Francesca French author entries. Works appearing on this combined author page could be edited so that they appear on the individual author's pages.
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- Obras
- 27
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #70,811
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 6
To give a brief taste of her writing, here is a short paragraph from near the end of the book as she speaks of the nomads of the eastern Gobi as it merges into Mongolia. "It is a region so vast that the encampments are as widely separated by sands as islands on the face of an ocean are by water, but wherever there is steppe or grazing land, there the Mongol comes, spends a season, feeds his flocks and herds, then rolls up his tent and moves on to fresh pastures. The Gobi winds clean up the place which he has soiled, the pastures which his flocks have cropped grow greener than ever, and Nature promptly repairs all the mischief he has done to her clean orderliness." Alas for a time when Nature can no longer make repairs!… (más)