John Coleridge Patteson went from Eton, Balliol and a Merton fellowship to a Devon curacy, then sailed with Bishop Selwyn to the South Pacific and became the first Bishop of Melanesia. Drawing heavily on his letters, Charlotte Yonge follows his voyages among the islands, his gift for languages and his school for island boys, up to his death at Nukapu in 1871.
A rich, detailed Victorian biography of a celebrated missionary by the author of The Heir of Redclyffe. Download the free EPUB.