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London: Eyre Methuen, 1973. Publishers original cream cloth with gilt lettering to brown panel on spine. Dustwrapper: unclipped, closed tear to top of front cover, abrasion marks to edge of back cover, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions. 368pp including index, plus 12pp b/w plates, profusely illustrated with b/w line drawings and maps throughout text, pages clean and bright in firm binding. 'I go back to Africa to make an open path for commerce and Christianity' said David Livingstone in 1857, at the height of his fame. What manner of men and women were the missionaries? Why did they go to Africa in such vast numbers? Was it chiefly to take the Bible to 'degraded heathen'? Or were their motives complicated by personal ambition and by the greed of the countries from which they came? The missionaries who marched across Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are the subject of teis authors book He has reached behind the caricatures, following closely the unfolding pattern of missionary enterprise in the 'Dark Continent', to find heroism, hypocrisy and honest endeavour in almost equal proportions, and much racial prejudice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.