Junipero Serra: The Illustrated Story of the Franciscan Founder of California's Missions

From this vivid biography, Junipero Serra, the Franciscan who founded the oldest of the West Coast missions, emerged to take his rightful place in the American hall of a man of faith as unfaltering as the Pilgrims, of courage as unflinching as Lewis and Clark, and possessed of a spirit that was never satisfied with less than the most he could achieve for himself, his fellow humans, and his God.