Livingstone
A Nonfiction, History, Travel book. David Livingstone was a great missionary-explorer with a difficult personality, at...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 464 pages
- ISBN: 9780300091021 / 300091028
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David Livingstone was a great missionary-explorer with a difficult personality, at least as described in this 1973 book.Even those of us who know little about him today probably know the phrase: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume." Although the encounter with Henry Stanley occurred late in Livingstone's life, after almost everything that was... This book was on my bookshelf for a while before I picked it up, and then I couldn't put it down. On Amazon.com there are scads of books for young people idolizing this man. After reading this, I wonder why. As far as I remember he never made a true Christian convert. His main focus was finding the source of the Nile. This he never... This biography of Dr. David Livingstone, famous African explorer and missionary, left me with tears in my eyes. Jeal reveals the many flaws of the man--his irritability with other Europeans; his over-optimism about the Zambezi River as a highway; under-reporting of the spread of malaria and inter-tribal warfare, which cost several people...