Livingstone

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

David Livingstone is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, first European to cross Africa, and first to find Victoria Falls and source of the Congo River. In this edition, the author provides the fully rounded portrait of this complicated man - dogged by failure throughout his life despite his full share of success.

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Livingstone / Tim Jeal.

Summary

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.
Edition:Rev. ed

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

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

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780300191004, 0300191006
oclc:ocn870710496
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.

Subjects

Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Discovery and ex… Afrique subsaharienne -- Découverte et … Biographies Discoveries in geography Explorers Explorers -- Biography. -- Africa, Sub-… Explorers -- Biography. -- Great Britain Great Britain Sub-Saharan Africa