Company of Heaven: Early Missionaries in the South Seas"Christianity was brought to the islands of the South Seas by European explorers in the sixteenth century, and has remained through all manner of trials and tribulation. This book is about the missionaries, their achievements and adversities over four turbulent centuries. Graeme Kent describes their exploits agains such exotic backgrounds as Tahiti, Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji, Pitcairn, New Caledonia, the Solomons, the Cooks, the New Hebrides and many other beautiful yet savage lands ..."--Inside front cover. |
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