Into Africa
Subtitle: the dramatic retelling of the Stanley-Livingstone story
By: Martin Dugard
Edition: 1st Charnwood ed.
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9781843950677
Subjects: Explorers; Biography; Medical Missionaries; Discovery and exploration; Discoveries in geography
Description: In 1866 Britain's foremost explorer, Dr David Livingstone, set out for Africa to search for the source of the Nile. His course would lead through nearly impenetrable, unmapped terrain and into areas populated by fearsome man-eating tribes. Within weeks Livingstone's itinerary began to fall apart, his entourage deserted him and he vanished without trace. While debate raged in England over whether he could be found, James Gordon Bennett, an American newspaper tycoon, commissioned his star reporter, Henry Morton Stanley, to search for him. INTO AFRICA traces the journeys of Livingstone and Stanley in alternating chapters. Livingstone's story is one of trials and setbacks. Stanley's is an awakening to the beauty of Africa.