Spanning some fifty-five years and a quarter of a million miles travel , the Journal records John Wesley's trials and successes in preaching in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and America. His observastions and opinions on many contemporary matters are a valuable reflection of eighteenth-century society, and from its pages, he emerges almost as the hero of an epic. Readership: general; students of religious or social 18th century history; Methodists; Evangelicals.