The most definitive biography of Hudson Taylor is the James Broomhall, Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, in 7 volumes (1981-1989).

Book 1 - Barbarians at the Gates (Out of Print)
Book 2 - Over the Treaty Wall (Out of Print)
Book 3 - If I Had a Thousand Lives
Book 4 - Survivor's Pact (Out of Print)
Book 5 - Refiner's Fire (Out of Print)
Book 6 - Assault on the Nine
Book 7 - It is not Death to Die

If I Had a Thousand Lives is the third in a series of seven books. It tells of Hudson Taylor's decision to leave the Chinese Evangelisation Society and 'live by faith' at a time of momentous upheaval in China, his marriage to Maria Dyer and the completion of his medical studies back in London. At last, in 1865, the China Inland Mission was born.

528 pages

ISBN: 0-340-32392-2