author
A. (Arthur) Brittain
1858–1918
A late-19th-century missionary writer, he is remembered for a firsthand journal of life in the New Hebrides, now Vanuatu. His surviving work offers a direct glimpse of travel, mission life, and cross-cultural encounters in the South Pacific.
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Journal of Residence in the New Hebrides, S.W. Pacific Ocean
by C. (Charles) Bice, A. (Arthur) Brittain
About the author
Arthur Brittain (1858–1918) is best known as the co-author, with Charles Bice, of Journal of Residence in the New Hebrides, S.W. Pacific Ocean. The book records experiences from 1886 and was connected with work of the Melanesian Mission, giving modern readers a vivid period account of island travel and missionary life.
Reliable biographical details about him are limited in the sources I could confirm. A memorial record identifies him as born in England in 1858 and dying in St. Louis, Missouri, on November 20, 1918.
What makes Brittain notable today is the documentary value of his writing. His journal preserves on-the-ground observations from the South Pacific in the late 1800s, and it remains the work most closely associated with his name.