The strong friendship between two boys, one black and one white, who live on a mission in Rhodesia, begins to unravel as protests against white colonial rule intensify in 1964.

A British Petroleum executive is assigned to work with the British Army in North Africa handling port duties for incoming fuels. This gives him the official rank of Captain in the British Army. The Colonel in charge is told he must have a British officer accompany his men on a dangerous mission 400 miles behind German lines and is saddled with the Petroleum executive. The real leader of the group doesn't need or want the British officer, who's supposed...

"Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713-1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive biography, translators and historians Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz bring this complex figure to life and illuminate the Spanish period of California and the American Southwest. In Junípero Serra:...

Discusses the Mission San Antonio de Pádua from its founding in 1771 to the present day, including the reasons for Spanish colonization in California and the effects of colonization on the local Indians.

Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, were pioneer missionaries to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. Very much a child of the Second Great Awakening, Narcissa eagerly the burgeoning evangelical missionary movement. Following her marriage to Marcus Whitman, she spent most of 1836 traveling overland with him to Oregon. Narcissa enthusiastically began service as a missionary there, hoping to see many "benighted" Indians adopt her message of...

Profiles Fray Juan Crespi, who founded the Mission San Carlos Borromeo in Carmel by the Sea, California, and recorded his experiences as a Franciscan missionary and a member of a team of explorers.

In 1866, a fourteen-year-old orphan reluctantly joins the crew of a missionary ship leaving Australia, but when a hurricane strands him on a South Sea island and he is captured by slave traders, he finds the courage to trust in God.