After learning and mastering the Hawaiian language, he won the confidence of the Hawaiians and converted thousands to Christianity. He set up schools, as did his wife, and provided medical assistance and comfort to a rapidly changing culture. He later established churches and trained native converts to act as missionaries among their own people.

He traveled extensively, and at times with great peril, throughout his island home and later to the Marquesas Islands. His adventures and descriptions of first-time encounters with both the environment and the people are quite remarkable. This was a time of great excitement and great despair. Foreign interests in Hawaii, military engagements, visitors of renown, and Hawaiian Kings all provide a rather colorful backdrop against which his story is told.

In addition to his missionary labors, Titus Coan added a great deal to our knowledge of volcanic eruptions. He corresponded and worked with geologist James Dwight Dana, performed many observations, and published with the American Journal of Science. For decades he explored and recorded the volcanic activity on the island of Hawaii.

Titus Coan is perhaps best known for his books Adventures in Patagonia (1880) and Life in Hawaii (1882).

Within these works, St. Alphonsus stresses the importance of the inner life; the ease with which we can converse with God; on how the eternal truths are revealed to us; the absolute necessity of prayer, and how all is eventually lost without prayer. He directs us as to how to talk with God; explains how God answers us; how God listens to the prayers of everyone, and shows us how to continually have God’s Presence with us throughout our day.

St. Alphonsus authored more than one hundred books on spirituality and theology over his lifetime. Many were written during the half-hours he snatched between his labors as missionary, religious superior, and Bishop. St. Alphonsus was canonized in 1839, and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1871.

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland are different in a number of respects, most notably in the length of the stories. Alice’s Adventures Under Ground contains approximately 12,715 words, where the expanded version, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, consists of over 26,000 words. Also of note, are the differences between the artwork included with the two stories. The original manuscript, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, was completely illustrated by Carroll, whereas the artwork for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was provided by Sir John Tenniel.

This edition, sets in type, the original 1864 handwritten manuscript, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, by Lewis Carroll, and includes 37 illustrations by the author. The text was transcribed from the 1886 Macmillan & Co. facsimile, and proofed from images of the original Lewis Carroll manuscript at the British Library, Add. MS 46700.

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), was an Austrian philosopher and prolific author. Steiner made substantial contributions to numerous fields and wrote extensively about science, medicine, agriculture, social interactions, education, architecture and art. In particular, his insight into humanity, and its material and spiritual needs, became the essence of his work.

Mystics of the Renaissance, from Scriptoria Books, is an authentic reproduction of the 1911 G. P. Putnam’s Sons’ publication. It has been transcribed word for word, set in a contemporary typeface, and formatted for size and readability.

Susanna Winkworth (1820-1884), translated the most complete version of the Theologia Germanica known, based on the Wurtzburg Manuscript, discovered in the 19th century. Her translation, first published in 1854, includes additional passages not found in the editions made popular by Martin Luther.

In this Modern English Edition of the Theologia Germanica from Scriptoria Books, only obsolete, archaic, and poetic words have been edited. The grammar and syntax of Susanna Winkworth’s original translation from the German manuscript, have been preserved. This creates an edition that is true to the composition of the original translation, while providing a more-modern easier-reading text for the reader.

Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) was a renowned English author, educated at King’s College for Women, London, and was Upton Lecturer on the Philosophy of Religion at Manchester College, Oxford from 1921 to 1922. Between 1902 and 1940 she authored many works, but is most noted for the books she produced on various aspects of mysticism.

Among her writings are The Grey World (1904), Mysticism (1911), The Mystic Way (1913), Practical Mysticism (1915), The Essentials of Mysticism (1920), The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (1922), Concerning the Inner Life (1926), Man and the Supernatural (1927), and The House of the Soul (1929).

The Grey World from Scriptoria Books, is an authentic reproduction of the 1904 William Heinemann publication. It has been transcribed word for word and formatted for print and digital media.

Later in life, Tolstoy formulated a unique Christian philosophy based upon the teachings of Jesus, and rejected the institutional doctrine of the Church. These convictions made a profound impact on his life and are reflected in his writings after the year c.1880.

My Religion is a comprehensive exposition of this newfound faith, where Tolstoy lays out in detail every important aspect of his belief, and strives to explain the true meaning of Christ’s message, and where the Church has strayed from the Word of God.

This edition of My Religion, from Scriptoria Books, is an authentic reproduction of the Huntington Smith translation. It has been transcribed word for word and formatted for print and digital media.

Lorenzo Scupoli (c.1530-1610), was born in Otranto, Italy. He was admitted to the religious order of the Theatine Regular Clerks of St. Cajetan, in 1571, and by his desire, was called Lorenzo of Otranto. He later went to Milan, under the provost St. Andrew Avellino. After many years of active duties, he retired into strict seclusion and wrote The Spiritual Combat.

In 1589, the first edition of Il combattimento spirituale (The Spiritual Combat) appeared and contained thirty-three chapters. But Scupoli continued to add to the text, and it gradually grew into the current version containing sixty-six chapters. Since its introduction, four centuries ago, approximately six hundred editions have been published globally.

This edition, from Scriptoria books, is an authentic reproduction of the Rivingtons’ translation from their Library of Spiritual Works. It contains the complete original text of The Spiritual Combat, and also includes two additional writings by Scupoli, The Supplement and The Path to Paradise, which further address and deal with our imperfect nature.

This edition, from Scriptoria books, is an authentic reproduction of the 1912 English translation by D.H.S. Nicholson. It has been transcribed word for word, set in a contemporary typeface, and formatted for print and digital media.

The Wisdom of the Desert, first published in 1904, was written in an attempt to appreciate the religious spirit of these first Christian monks. It is a collection of stories and sayings compiled from the literature of the desert life, organized and interwoven into an overview on the thoughts, lives and doctrines of the early desert Christians.

Rev. James Owen Hannay (1865-1950) was born in Belfast, Ireland. Among his non-fiction works, he published The Spirit of Christian Monasticism (1903), The Wisdom of the Desert (1904), The Connaught to Chicago (1914), A Padre in France (1918), A Wayfarer in Hungary (1925), and biographies Isaiah (1937) and Jeremiah (1939). Under the pen name George A. Birmingham, he also wrote many critically acclaimed and popular books.