William Carey by S. Pearce Carey

1n 1793 William Carey - universally regarded as the 'father of modern missions' - sailed from Dover to Calcutta to begin the most celebrated forty years in the annals of missionary achievement.

Sustained through early years of privation and heartache, Carey - together with the colleagues who joined him - not only accomplished more than any missionary before or since, but by his example lit a fire of missionary zeal through all the Christian churches of Britain and America.

This outstanding biography 'towers like an o'ertopping alp above the other records' S. Pearce Carey, distinguished great-grandson of the missionary, was a 'master of the biographical craft'.

Here he movingly unfolds the Carey story to display the man, and also the wonderful providences of God that led him throughout his remarkable labours.

Few Christian biographies so greatly inspire, move and inform as this superb account of the country shoemaker who became the best-known missionary in Christendom, second to the apostle Paul.