"Originally published in Japanese under the title Chinmoku by Monumenta Nipponica"--Title page verso.

A fiery evangelist takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959, carrying all they need from home, but find it is calamitously transformed on African soil. The tale recounts the family's tragic undoing and reconstruction.

Volume 1 of this 1902 edition contains the diary of the short life of colonial American missionary David Brainerd.

The book also covers her illness, death, funeral, the new leadership of her order, and her probable canonization.

A fascinating account of the life of William Carey, one of the nineteenth century's pioneers of Protestant mission in India.

Documents the lives of missionaries who sought to convert the Huao Indians of Ecuador.

The literal and spiritual journey of two French priests who come to the American Southwest as missionaries in the mid-1800s.