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Two lectures given by the medical missionary and explorer David
Livingstone after his return to England from his travels in Africa
(1841-1856) form the core of this book, which was originally
published in 1858, the year when Livingstone set off on the British
Zambezi expedition. The book also contains a biography, a letter
from Adam Sedgwick (then Professor of Geology at Cambridge), and a
thorough appendix covering the scientific results of the journey,
describing the geography, mineralogy, diseases, and the language
and cultural aspects of the peoples Livingstone encountered.
Finally, Livingstone reports on the needs and prospects for further
missionary work in Africa. Although Livingstone himself felt his
calling was now to pursue purely scientific exploration, he hoped
that the lectures and their subsequent publication would encourage
other missionaries to continue his work of evangelisation.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas: Being An
Account of The Early Settlements, The Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and
Times of Peace (1907)
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Originally published in 1907 and now reprinted for the first time,
this is the only account published by a Union guerrilla in the
border region of the central Ozarks, where political and civil
violence lasted from the Civil War well into the 1880s. There were
probably many people who wanted to shoot Billy Monks. He was a
Union patriot and skilled guerrilla fighter to some, but others
called him a bushwhacker, a murderer, and a thief. His was a very
personal combat: he commanded, rallied, arrested, killed, quarreled
with, and sued people he knew. His life provides a striking example
of the cliche that the war did not end in 1865, but continued
fiercely on several fronts for another decade as partisan factions
settled old scores and battled for local political control. This
memoir was Monks' last salvo at his old foes, by turns self-defense
and an uncompromising affirmation of the Radical Union cause in the
Ozarks. The editors include a new biographical sketch of the
author, fill in gaps in his narrative, identify all the people and
places to which he refers, and offer a detailed index. Monks
himself illustrated the volume with staged photographs of key
events re-created by aged comrades who appear to have been just
barely able to hoist the muskets they hold as props.
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