“Echoes of Service” – World Missionary Map
$850.00
Rare wall map showing Jerusalem at the center of the Earth.
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Description
Offering “A New Outlook Upon the World” (according to text in the lower right), this impressive wall map shows a modified regional polar projection with Jerusalem at its center. From it radiates circles of red dots in increments of 1,000 miles, alluding to the vast distances between remote continents like Australia and South America to the holy city.
Somewhat faded color applied to each region reflects racial categories of approximately 750 million people each. Four groups in total are described in the legend (lower left), with the words “the CHALLENGE of a rapidly increasing TOTAL of three-thousand-million people.”
The map was designed and produced by W.J. Slee in Devon, England in 1965 and published by the Echoes of Service. This support agency, headquartered in Bath and still in operation today, evolved from a late 19th-century magazine that published letters from missionaries in the field. Various Biblical verses support the Evangelical ideals of the Christian Brethren movement, with whom the Echoes of Service was affiliated.
Map Details
Publication Date: 1965
Author: W.J. Slee
Sheet Width (in): 59
Sheet Height (in): 38.25
Condition: B+
Condition Description: Huge wall map, mounted onto linen and folded into twelve segments. Scattered light spotting throughout, pinholes in the corners, and the lower right is beginning to pull away from the linen. Some darker spotting visible in the center right, around Australia, and in the U.S.S.R. The body color, probably applied originally by hand, has faded dramatically in several areas. Remains in good to very good condition overall.
$850.00
1 in stock