Through Gates of Splendor, First Edition
Through Gates of Splendor, First Edition
By: Elisabeth Elliot
PBK.003222
Printed Book
1957
United States
English
Printed on Paper
8.9 × 5.8 × 1.2 in. (22.5 × 14.8 × 3 cm)
On View at the Biblical History Center, LaGrange, Georgia
This book was written by Christian author and speaker Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) in 1957. Elisabeth was a missionary to the Waodäni people of Ecuador in the 1950s with her husband, Jim Elliot. She chose to stay and live with the tribe after a Waodäni hunting party killed Jim and four other missionaries in 1956. After Jim’s death, Elisabeth was encouraged to write about what happened. She resisted at first, not wanting to turn attention to herself, and thus away from the work, but eventually realized that telling the story would help the mission continue. Elisabeth returned to the United States in 1963. Through Gates of Splendor has since become her most popular work.
Published in 1957 by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, New York. Acquired by Gertrude G. Nelson.[1] Acquired by Pat Hunt.[2] Acquired by Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015); Via death in 2015 to Lars Gren, Little Rock, Arkansas; Donated in 2020 to Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.
Notes: [1] The name “Gertrude G. Nelson” is inscribed at the top of the title page. Someone, likely a new owner, crossed it out. [2] The name Pat Hunt is inscribed on the back of the front flyleaf.
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