In the late summer of 1852, just five years after the arrival of the Saints in the Salt Lake Valley, thirteen men heard their names read in general conference, informing them they had been called on missions to India and Siam. One of those men was twenty-two-year-old Amos Milton Musser, who had walked across the plains to Utah only the year before. In Nothing More Heroic, author R. Lanier Britsch recounts the adventure and perils experienced by Elder Musser and his companions as they answered a prophet’s call to take the restored gospel to one of the most exotic, far-off, “foreign,” and inhospitable places imaginable: the subcontinent of India. Drawing upon the missionaries’ journals and letters and writing, Dr. Britsch tells the amazing story of a courageous group of faithful elders. They battled “the powers of darkness, superstition, ignorance, and priest craft,” and were the object of prejudice, misunderstanding, and persecution. They endured staggering heat and humidity, poverty, disease, and constant peril as they traveled and preached. Living without purse or scrip, they depended on the generosity of the people and the goodness of the Lord to survive. They also struggled to penetrate two of the most complex and restrictive social systems in the world—the British classes and the Indian castes. Although the number of converts was small, theirs was a chronicle of persistence, faith, and devotion. Carefully researched and thoroughly documented, this book is a fascinating blend of scholarly research and captivating adventure.