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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

by David Livingstone

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1857
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David Livingstone spent sixteen years crossing southern and central Africa as a missionary and a doctor, and this 1857 book is the record he brought home. He describes the long march from the Kalahari to the Zambezi, the first European sighting of the falls he named for Queen Victoria, and the coast to coast walk that made him a household name in Britain. Livingstone writes as a medical man and a patient observer, noting fevers, rivers, trade routes, and the workings of the slave trade he wanted abolished. The tone is plain and often stubborn, and his regard for the people he traveled among shows through even where his assumptions have aged badly. The book shaped how a generation imagined the continent.

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Two different men are filed under this name. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa is by the Scottish missionary and explorer who lived from 1813 to 1873, put into a cotton mill at ten, and walked across the continent from Luanda to the mouth of the Zambezi.

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First published
1857
Reading time
About 22 hours
Pages
686
Language
English
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