The Road to Bau & The Autobiography of Joeli Bulu

Alan Tippett’s publications played a significant role in the development of missiology. The volumes 

in this series augment his distinguished reputation by bringing to light his many unpublished materials and 

hard-to-locate printed articles. These books—encompassing theology, anthropology, history, area 

studies, religion, and ethnohis- tory—broaden the contours of the discipline.

English missionary John Hunt and Tongan missionary Joeli Bulu served in the Fiji islands in the 

1840s. Their lives were intertwined as they faced the social issues of island warfare, cannibalism, 

and the ills brought to the Pacific by traders and those involved in the labor trade. In this fascinating two-volume book Alan Tippett  first provides the biography of Hunt, then together with Tomasi Kanailagi gives us the thoroughly 

researched and annotated autobiography of Joeli Bulu.