The men and women who ventured into the frontier were passionate and
often striking characters. They shaped the land that they chose to
call home and in the process they too were altered. The recollections of their
triumphs are exhilarating; the chronicles of their defeats are
poignant. They are, however, all stories of transformation.
This section offers some of these voices. On one hand, we can discover
through the missionaries' words an illuminating and often emotional
perspective. On the other, the voices
connected with the missions-the wives, officials, colleagues and
of the missionaries themselves and paint a dynamic portrait of the mission
era, a picture that is further completed by the words of contemporary
poets and historians.