Livingstone

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David Livingstone is revered as one of the world's greatest explorers and missionaries and as the first European to cross Africa. This biography reveals the man behind the myth, one capable of ruthless cruelty as well as self-sacrifice.

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Title Statements

Full title :Livingstone / Tim Jeal.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013
Edition:Revised and expanded edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

Notes

Previous edition: New Haven, Yale Nota Bene, 2001.

The Physical Object

Description:432 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780300191004, 0300191006
oclc:ocn846703385
LC Classification:DT1110.L58
Dewey Decimal:916.70423

Pt. ONE ASPIRATION -- 1.Factory Boy, 1813 -- 1836 -- 2.Medical Studies and Missionary Training, 1836 -- 1840 -- 3.Africa and South Africa, 1841 -- 4.Early Disappointment: Kuruman, 1841 -- 1843 -- 5.A False Start: Mabotsa, 1844 -- 1845 -- 6.Livingstone and the Boers: Chonuane, 1845 -- 1847 -- 7.The Only Convert: Kolobeng, 1847 -- 1849 -- pt. TWO ACHIEVEMENT -- 8.North to the Zambesi, 1849 -- 1851 -- 9.Return to Linyanti, 1852 -- 1853 -- 10.From Coast to Coast, 1853 -- 1856 -- pt. THREE FAME -- 11.National Hero: the First Visit Home, 1856 -- 1858 -- 12.The Price of Optimism: the Makololo Mission, 1857 -- 1860 -- 13.Her Majesty's Consul -- pt. FOUR REVERSAL -- 14.The Zambesi Expedition Sets Sail -- 15.The Rocks in God's Highway, 1858 -- 16.Colonial Dreams: the Shire and Lake Nyassa, 1859 -- 1860 -- 17.Death of a Fighting Bishop -- 18.Disaster and Collapse: the End of the Zambesi Expedition, 1862 -- 1864 -- pt. FIVE REJECTION -- 19.The Last Visit Home, 1864 -- 1865 -- pt. SIX ATONEMENT -- 20.Nyassa to Tanganyika, 1866 -- 1869 -- 21.Fantasy in Manyuema, 1869 -- 1871 -- 22.Stanley and the Livingstone Myth -- 23.The Last Journey, 1872 -- 1873 -- 24.Livingstone and the British Empire.

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Africa, Central -- Discovery and explor… Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Discovery and ex… Afrique centrale -- Découverte et explo… Afrique subsaharienne -- Découverte et … Biographies Central Africa Discoveries in geography Explorers Explorers -- Biography. -- Scotland Livingstone, David Scotland Sub-Saharan Africa