by David Livingstone · Cooper Square Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780815412083
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«The Life and African Explorations of Dr. David Livingstone» is the travel account of David Livingstone (Cooper Square Press, hardback, 643 pp., in English).
The book brings together the diaries, reports and letters in which Livingstone narrated his expeditions into the African interior: Victoria Falls, Lake Ngami, first Westerner to cross the continent, his escape from a lion, negotiations with local chiefs, the slave trade and the Christian faith that sustained his enterprise.
Cooper Square Press edition of 2002; includes maps and illustrations. Work originally published in 1874.
Recommended for readers interested in the exploration of Africa, historical biographies and nineteenth-century travel accounts.
David Livingstone was a Scottish doctor, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffat missionary family. Livingstone came to have a mythic status as a Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion. As a result, he became one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era.
