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Read Books Dr David Livingstone in Africa - A Historical Article on the Life and Expeditions of Dr Livingstone by Anon
This vintage book contains a fascinating a historical article on the life and expeditions of the famous explorer of Africa David Livingstone. With a wealth of fascinating biographical information and accurate accounts of some of his most memorable excursions this volume constitutes a mustread for those with an interest in David Livingstone and would make for a worthy addition to collections of antiquarian literature. Livingstone (1813 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society as well as a famed explorer. Perhaps one of the most popular national heroes of the latenineteenth century in Victorian Britain Livingstone had a mythic status which operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr workingclass rags to riches inspirational story scientific investigator and explorer imperial reformer antislavery crusader and advocate of commercial empire. His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the obsession with discovering the sources of the River Nile that formed the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of the African continent. Many vintage texts such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable modern highquality edition.show more