A very good missionary biography. Forder is pretty headstrong and maybe a little oblivious at moments—but then, what missionary isn’t?
What makes this story valuable is that he pioneered among the Bedouin in present-day Jordan, and made visits to rural areas all over the northern Arabian Peninsula. Almost no missionary work was being done in most of the areas he visited, so that his accounts and his depictions, for the time in which they were written, were almost wholly unique.
In terms of day-to-day life, Forder did medical work, often aiding wounded Bedouin after tribal skirmishes. He also distributed Scriptures.
Later books show how he pioneered a new mission among Palestine’s Bedouin (based in Jerusalem).