John Eliot, 'Apostle to the Indians'

225 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Biography of John Eliot 1604-1690 , who, at the age of forty-five created a grammar and dictionary of the highly-inflected language of the Algonquian Indians and then translated the entire Bible 1663 so he could preach to the Indians in their own tongue. He went to the Indians in friendship, and created fourteen "Praying Indian" towns, where they settled down to farm and trade and keep the Sabbath. Illustrated with title-page and manuscript facsimiles. The author had previously won a Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Jonathan Edwards.