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David Livingstone, Africa's Greatest Explorer - The Man, the Missionary and the Myth (Paperback)
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David Livingstone, Africa's Greatest Explorer - The Man, the Missionary and the Myth (Paperback)
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In 1841, a twenty-eight-year-old Scottish missionary, David
Livingstone, began the first of his exploratory treks into the
African veldt. During the course of his lifetime, he covered over
29,000 miles uncovering what lay beyond rivers and mountain ranges
where no other white man had ever been. Livingstone was the first
European to make a trans-African passage from modern day Angola to
Mozambique and he discovered and named numerable lakes, rivers and
mountains. His explorations are still considered one of the
toughest series of expeditions ever undertaken. He faced an endless
series of life-threatening situations, often at the hands of
avaricious African chiefs, cheated by slavers traders and attacked
by wild animals. He was mauled by a lion, suffered thirst and
starvation and was constantly affected by dysentery, bleeding from
hemorrhoids, malaria and pneumonia.This biography covers his life
but also examines his relationship with his wife and children who
were the main casualties of his endless explorations in Africa. It
also looks Livingstone's legacy through to the modern day.
Livingstone was an immensely curious person and he made a habit of
making meticulous observations of the flora and fauna of the
African countryside that he passed through. His legacy includes
numerable maps and geographical and botanical observations and
samples. He was also a most powerful and effective proponent for
the abolition of slavery and his message of yesterday is still
valid today in a continent stricken with drought, desertification
and debt for he argued that the African culture should be
appreciated for its richness and diversity. But like all great men,
he had great faults. Livingstone was unforgiving of those that he
perceived had wronged him; he was intolerant of those who could not
match his amazing physical powers; and finally and he had no
compunction about distorting the truth, particularly about other
people, in order to magnify his already significant achievements.
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