ON THE TRAIL OF JOHN WESLEY
By J. Keith Cheetham
Luath Press Ltd. 208 pages. £7.99
ISBN 1 84282 023 0
As the title perhaps suggests this is not so much a biography of John Wesley as a guidebook for those who wish to retrace the very same physical paths he himself travelled. Each chapter explores a particular territory - e.g. Scotland, Georgia, Ireland - and in a very light-hearted style chronicles the churches and other Wesleyan heritage sites that may be of interest to Christian 'amateur historians'.
Clearly this work is a subject close to the author's heart. Mr. Cheetham represents the Methodist church on the 'Churches Tourism Association', and at times there is a tendency for the text to lose sight of Wesley and to stray instead into general Methodist history and trivia. As with a guidebook, the author assumes that the reader is actually 'on location' with book in hand and it is not easily read otherwise.
