David Livingstone
Description
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.
Keywords
HistoryEuropeGreat BritainAfricaReligionChristianity
2001Book
Author(s)Meriel Buxton
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333740415
LanguageEnglish
