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David Livingstone
About this book
A biography of David Livingstone giving a balanced account of his strengths and weaknesses. Revered for years as a saint, he was in fact a much more interesting character, difficult, demanding and unsympathetic but also single minded, determined, patient and outstandingly brave. At ten he worked a fourteen hour day in a mill and at sixty was buried in Westminster Abbey. The first European to cross Africa, he discovered the Victoria Falls and survived shipwreck, attacks by natives and being mauled by a lion.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Spelling
- Chronology
- 1 Blantyre: the Boy
- 2 Glasgow, Chipping Ongar and London: the Student
- 3 Kuruman and Mabotsa: the Newcomer
- 4 Chonuane and Kolobeng: the Missionary
- 5 Lake Ngami, the River Zouga and Cape Town: the Traveller
- 6 To the West Coast of Africa: the Pioneer
- 7 Across Africa from West to East: Great Leader of Africans
- 8 Britain: National Hero
- 9 The Zambesi and Shire Rivers: Flawed Leader of Europeans
- 10 The Shire and Rovuma Rivers: the Husband
- 11 The Indian Ocean: Shipās Captain
- 12 Britain: Author and Father
- 13 Lakes Nyassa, Tanganyika and Moero: the Explorer
- 14 Ujiji and Unyanyembe: Scoop
- 15 To Chitamboās Village: the Dying Man
- 16 From Africa to Westminster Abbey: Venerated Leader
- 17 From Blantyre to Westminster Abbey: neither Saint nor Failure
- Appendix: Livingstoneās Alleged Love Child
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
