Excerpt from African Missionary Heroes and Heroines Were it but possible in the time and space that can be given to this book to write Of Stanley and Lavigerie the cardinal, Of Gordon and Rhodesia Rhodes, Of Bishop Hall and Hannington, Of Thornton, Pilkington, and Andrew Murray, Of Mary Kingsley, Mungo Park, and Samuel Baker, Of Rebman, Schoen and Klein, Of Barth and Nachtigal, of Denham, Junker, Overweg and Vogel, Of Browne, and Speke, and Grant, and van der Decken, Of Gordon Cumming, Arnot, Emin Pasha, of Madame Tinney, Schweinfurth and Selous, Of Bishop gobat and his Pilgrim Street to Abyssinia, Of chureh-fathers, Cyril, Cyprian, and Athanasius, Of Clement, Origen and Tertullian, and Of the greatest Of them - St. Augustine - and many more; for days, and months, and years, were one to write, and tell the tales - innumerable, thrilling - Of all these mighty men, whose names you see here on this page, we should have failed to mention most of Afric's heroes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

It has been said that the British Empire, on which the sun never set, meant little to the man in the street. Apart from the jingoist eruptions at the death of Gordon or the relief of Mafeking he remained stonily indifferent to the imperial destiny that beckoned his rulers so alluringly. Strange, then that for three-quarters of a century it was scarcely possible to buy a bar of soap or a tin of biscuits without being reminded of the idea of Empire. Packaging, postcards, music hall, cinema, boy's stories and school books, exhibitions and parades, all conveyed the message that Empire was an adventure and an ennobling responsibility. Army and navy were a sure shield for the mother country and the subject peoples alike. Boys' brigades and Scouts stiffened the backbone of youth who flocked to join. In this illuminating study John M. Mackenzie explores the manifestations of the imperial idea, from the trappings of royalty through writers like G. A. Henty to the humble cigarette card. He shows that it was so powerful and pervasive that it outlived the passing of Empire itself and, as events such as the Falklands 'adventure' showed, the embers continue to smoulder.

Drawing on extensive research and his own wide travels, Ford vividly retells ancient African myths and tales and brings to light their universal meanings.

Excerpt from The Missionary Heroes of Africa The following sketches are Ofi'ered in the hope that, brief and imperfect as they are, they may serve to communicate some spark of that divine fire which burns in all heroic lives, and nowhere clearer than in the lives of Christlike and Apostolic men. In the hope, also, that they may aid the imagination in form ing some picture Of the marvelously varied and roman tic scenery of the African mission field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.