Author: GUNSON, NIEL.
Title: Messengers of Grace: Evangelical Missionaries in the South Seas 1797-1860.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. x, 437; endpaper maps, portrait frontispiece, text with 24 b/w. illustrations, 7 maps, notes, calendar of MS sources, select bibliography of printed sources, index, bound in original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. Melbourne; Oxford University Press; 1978. The book examines the first three generations of Evangelical missionaries to go to the South Sea islands, providing a survey of their social background, their training and their thought-world. It looks at the transformation of their ideas in the islands and finally examines their impact on the political, social and religious life of the Pacific Islanders. The work is important and widely recognised as the foundation history of 19th century Protestant missions to the Pacific Islands.

Keywords: pacific region south sea islands evangelical missionaries