Title: Sinking the Dayspring
Description: In 1866, a fourteen-year-old orphan reluctantly joins the crew of a missionary ship leaving Australia, but when a hurricane strands him on a South Sea island and he is captured by slave traders, he finds the courage to trust in God.
Subjects: Slave trade, Missions, Missionaries, Juvenile fiction, Christian life, Orphans, Fiction
Places: Islands of the Pacific, Vanuatu
People: John Gibson Paton (1824-1907)