John Newton is best known as the author of Amazing Grace but this brilliant new biography shows how he led one of the most colourful and influential lives of the 18th century.Using a wealth of unpublished material, Jonathan Aitken charts Newton's journey through slave trading, best selling authorship, ordination, church leadership, abolitionist campaigning and the spiritual mentoring of William Wilberforce and William Cowper.

From Newton's rip-roaring adventures on the high seas to his emergence as a pivotal figure in the abolitionist and evangelical movements this is a life of amazing achievement as well as of Amazing Grace.

Table Of Contents:

Acknowledgements
01 A Spiritual Upbringing
02 First Steps in Love and Seafaring
03 Press-ganged
04 Flogged and Degraded
05 Exchanged
06 Enslaved in Africa
07 Rescued by the Greyhound
08 Troublemaker and Blasphemer
09 In the Shadow of Death
10 False Dawns, More Storms and a Safe Landing
11 Londonderry, Love and a Liverpool Shipowner
12 Adventures on the Brownlow
13 Struggles of Books, Body and Soul
14 Marriage to Polly
15 Captain of the Duke of Argyle
16 First Voyage of the African
17 The End of a Seafaring Career
18 Unemployment, Inspiration and Prayer
19 Methodism and Materialism
20 Life in Liverpool

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ISBN: 9780826493842
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: CROSSROAD/CONTINUUM PUB G - published 14/03/2008
Format: Paperback