Publisher's Synopsis
This volume chronicles the adventures in faith of a selection of remarkable missionary pioneers. Some were household names, three became martyrs. They left the security of home to travel into the unknown, and their legacy is a worldwide Church which is now stronger in the southern hemisphere than in the northern.;Among the author's earlier works are biographies of Billy Graham, George Whitefield, William Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury and D.L.Moody.