The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

This landmark biography concerns David Brainerd, one of the most successful missionaries to live in the colonial era of North America.


Although he lived a short life, perishing at the age of twenty-nine, David Brainerd distinguished himself as a missionary of supreme talent and capacity. Working in the barely charted wildernesses of North America in the early 18th century, his missions aimed to convert the Native American population to the Christian creed. Many converted, partly as Brainerd ...