CONTENTS PROLOGUE The Relay Race Book One: THE PIONEERS CHAPTER I The Hero of the Long Trail (St. Paul) CHAPTER II The Men on the Shingle Beach (Wilfrid of Sussex) CHAPTER III The Knight of a New Crusade (Raymond Lull) CHAPTER IV Francis Coeur-de-Lion (St. Francis of Assisi) Book Two: THE ISLAND ADVENTURERS CHAPTER V The Adventurous Ship (The Duff) CHAPTER VI The Island Beacon Fires (Papeiha) CHAPTER VII The Daybreak Call (John Williams) CHAPTER VIII Kapiolani, the Heroine of Hawaii (Kapiolani) CHAPTER IX The Canoe of Adventure (Elikana) CHAPTER X The Arrows of Santa Cruz (Patteson) CHAPTER XI Five Knots in a Palm Leaf (Patteson) CHAPTER XII The Boy of the Adventurous Heart (Chalmers) CHAPTER XIII The Scout of Papua (Chalmers) CHAPTER XIV A South Sea Samaritan (Ruatoka) Book Three: THE PATHFINDERS OF THE PATHFINDERS OF AFRICA CHAPTER XV The Man Who Would Go On (Livingstone) CHAPTER XVI A Black Prince of Africa (Khama) CHAPTER XVII The Knight of the Slave Girls (George Grenfell) CHAPTER XVIII "A Man Who Can Turn His Hand to Anything" (Mackay) CHAPTER XIX The Roadmaker (Mackay) CHAPTER XX Fighting the Slave Trade (Mackay) CHAPTER XXI The Black Apostle of the Lonely Lake (Shomolakae) CHAPTER XXII The Woman Who Conquered Cannibals (Mary Slessor) Book Four: HEROINES AND HEROES OF PLATEAU AND DESERT CHAPTER XXIII Sons of the Desert (Abdallah and Sabat) CHAPTER XXIV A Race Against Time (Henry Martyn) CHAPTER XXV The Moses of the Assyrians (Dr. Shedd) CHAPTER XXVI An American Nurse in the Great War (E.D. Cushman) CHAPTER XXVII On the Desert Camel Trail (Archibald Forder) CHAPTER XXVIII The Friend of the Arab (Archibald Forder)