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David Livingstone: The Unexplored Story

David Livingstone: The Unexplored Story

Tomkins, Stephen

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Adventurers & ExplorersHistorical FiguresAfrican History

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ISBN10: 0745955681
ISBN13: 9780745955681
Publisher: Lion Books
Published: Jan 18 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

David Livingstone has gone down in history as a fearless explorer and missionary, hacking his way through the forests of Africa to bring light to the people - and also to free them from slavery. But who was he, and what was he actually like?


He was an extraordinary character, according to biographer Stephen Tomkins, spectacularly bad at personal relationships, at least with white people, possessed of infinite self-belief, courage, and restlessness. He was an almost total failure as a missionary, and so became an explorer and campaigner against the slave trade, hoping to save African lives and souls that way instead. He helped, however unwittingly, to set the tone and the extent of British involvement in Africa. He was a flawed but indomitable idealist.

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