Livingstone
Edition: Revised and expanded ed.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Haven, CT; London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780300191004
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Livingstone, david, 1813-1873; Explorers; Africa, discovery and exploration; Africa, sub-saharan, description and travel
Description: David Livingstone is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, first European to cross Africa, and first to find Victoria Falls and source of the Congo River. In this edition, the author provides the fully rounded portrait of this complicated man - dogged by failure throughout his life despite his full share of success.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : A contradictory hero; title: Part one : Aspiration.; title: Factory boy, 1813-1836; title: Medical studies and missionary training, 1836-1840; title: Africa and South Africa, 1841; title: Early disappointment : Kuruman, 1841-1843; title: A false start : Mabotsa, 1844-1845; title: Livingstone and the Boers : Chonuane, 1845-1847; title: The only convert : Kolobeng, 1847-1849; title: Part two : Achievement.; title: North to the Zambesi, 1849-1851; title: Return to Linyanti, 1852-1853; title: From coast to coast, 1853-1856; title: Part three : Fame.; title: National hero : the first visit home, 1856-1858; title: The price of optimism : the Makololo mission, 1857-1860; title: Her Majesty's Consul; title: Part four : Reversal.; title: The Zambesi expedition sets sail; title: The rocks in God's highway, 1858; title: Colonial dreams : the Shire and Lake Nyassa, 1859-1860; title: Death of a fighting bishop; title: Disaster and collapse : the end of the Zambesi expedition, 1862-1864; title: Part five : Rejection.; title: The last visit home, 1864-1865; title: Part six : Atonement.; title: Nyassa to Tanganyika, 1866-1869; title: Fantasy in Manyuema, 1869-1871; title: Stanley and the Livingstone myth; title: The last journey, 1872-1873; title: Livingstone and the British Empire; title: Appendix : The date of the Stanley-Livingstone meeting