Publisher's Synopsis
Nassau (1835-1921) was an American presbyterian missionary who spent forty years in Africa. After studying at the College of New Jersey he moved on to the Princeton Theological Seminary and then obtained a medical qualification from Pennsylvania Medical School in 1861. He joined the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions as a missionary with his first posting being to the African island of Corisco. Throughout his career he served in many places including Benita, Belambia, Kangwe, Talaguga and Batanga, and established a mission at Lambarene in Gabon. He returned to the USA in 1906 and settled in Florida. He had three sons with his first wife, a fellow missionary who died in Corisco in 1870, and his second wife, with whom he had a daughter, also pre-deceased him in 1884. He was the author of several books including Fetichism in Africa (1904), and this collection of West African Folk Lore Tales which was first published in 1912.
