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The Life and African Explorations of David Livingstone

The Life and African Explorations of David Livingstone( )
Author: Livingstone, David
ISBN:978-0-8154-1208-3
Publication Date:May 2002
Publisher:Cooper Square Publishing, LLC
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $28.95
Book Description:

Nineteenth century missionary and explorer David Livingstone recalls his extensive journeys through Africa, his close calls with wild predators, and his confrontations with the slave trade.

Book Details
Pages:656
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers
History / Africa / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.64 x 9.1 x 1.43 Inches
Book Weight:1.67 Pounds
Author Biography
Livingstone, David (Author)
One of the most remarkable explorers of the nineteenth century, Livingstone sought first as a missionary and devout Christian to end the slave trade in Africa and then to locate the source of the Nile. In these attempts, he lost his wife, who caught a fever on an expedition in which she joined him. He discovered Victoria Falls and the lands between Nyasa and Tanganyika, encountering other hardships and tragedies in his double quest.

He was apparently much beloved by Africans who knew him. He never abated in his efforts on their behalf. His association with Sir Henry Morton Stanley is well known. The latter had been sent to find him by an American newspaper when Livingstone was feared lost. The formal approach of Stanley's first remark on finding him in a remote African village, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume," amused the world, and the greeting became a byword. Stanley was with Livingstone in northern Tanganyika when the latter died. "Missionary Travels" (1857) is essentially the contemporary record of Livingstone's two journeys to northwestern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1851-1853.

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