"Zambesi" tells the story of David Livingstone's Zambesi
Expedition. It exposes the rivalry among some of Victorian
Britain's leading establishment figures and institutions -
including the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical
Society, British Museum, Kew Gardens and the Admiralty - as
abolitionists, scientists, and entrepreneurs sought to promote and
protect their differing interests. Making use of letters, documents
and materials neglected by previous writers and researchers, the
author reveals how tensions arose from the very beginning between
those in pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and the proponents
of the civilizing missions who saw scientific knowledge as the
utilitarian means to a social end. The result is an exciting story
involving one of England's most feted Victorian heroes that offers
important new insights in the practice and politics of
expeditionary science in Victorian England. This is the definitive
account of the expedition to date.
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