Very rare first American printing of Amy Wilson-Carmichael's ground-breaking approach to missionary correspondence. The British and American public had been used to very surgical, clean narratives. Heathens are horrible [insert macabre story], missions romantically hard, success. 

Her reporting of the work in India, involving child prostitutes, the emotional ravages of her work, the complicity of the English in creating situations of poverty, etc., were shocking. 

Wilson-Carmichael, Amy. Things as They Are: Mission Work in Southern India. By Amy Wilson-Carmichael Keswick Missionary C.E.Z.M.S. Author of "Overweights of Joy," Etc. With Preface by Eugene Stock. New York. Fleming H. Revell Company. c.1905. 304pp.

A good + copy, bound in cloth, generally solid with some bumping at extremities; a bit toned.