A Mission Too Far...Pacific Commitment

A good historian, it has been said, is a prophet in reverse. The perceptive historian has the ability to look back at the past, identify issues overlooked by others, all the while stimulating the reader to search for the implications in the present of what has been discovered. Jan Snijders is such a prophet in reverse. He brings his shrewd intuitions and scholarly reflections to the ma- terial of this book as no previous writer on Colin’s leadership in 1835–1841 has so far been able to achieve.