01025     2200121   4500101000800000200009300008210003700101215001800138330066600156600002900822606003600851700001600887  aeng  aMartyr of the islandsbLIVethe life and death of John Coleridge Pattesonfby John Gutch  aLondoncHodder & Stoughtond1971  a223 p.d22 cm  aMartyr of the islands is the biography of John Coreridge Patteson, first misionary Bishop of Melanesia, who was murdered on the tiny atoll of Nkapu in the Western Pacific in September, 1871. While still a boy at Eton, Patteson was deeply moved by a sermon preached by George Augustus Selwyn, the newlu appointed Bishop of New Zealand, and conceived the wish to become a missionary. Fourteen years later he left his quiet parish in Devon and went with Selwyn to New Zealand. So began the fascinating association betwwen these two very different characters, Selwyn domineering and indefatigable, Patteson gentle and diffident but in his way equally determined....  aPattesonbJohn Coleridge  aEvangélisationyMélanésie  aGutchbJohn