The great Puritan Vice-Chancellor of OXford University, John Owen, was once asked by King Charles II whe he so frequently went to hear John Bunyan preach. He replied that he would happily exchange all his learning for the ability to preach Christ as the "Tinker of Bedford" did. Such appreciation for Bunyan's life and ministry has echoed down through the centuries, from ordinary Christians reading Pilgrim's Progress for pleasure and spiritual profit, to the great literary scholars, carefully researching BUnyan's masterpieces. But what of the man himself? In this Imaginative biography, Frank Mott Harrison traces Bunyan's own pilgrimage as a Christian and a preacher. The moving story of his life, with its sacrificesand sorrows and its simple joys, illuminates the riches of Bunyan's books. Even more important, it challenges Christians today to follow in the steps of this humble man of God who himself followed Christ so wholeheartedly.