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David Livingstone / C.S. Nicholls.
LIBRA DT1110.L58 N53 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholls, C. S. (Christine Stephanie)
- Series:
- Pocket biographies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.
- Livingstone, David.
- Explorers--Africa, Southern--Biography.
- Explorers.
- Missionaries, Medical.
- Biography.
- Southern Africa.
- Explorers--Scotland--Biography.
- Scotland.
- Missionaries, Medical--Africa, Southern--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 112 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton, 1998.
- Summary:
- In 1854 David Livingstone was acclaimed a hero for his discovery of the Victoria Falls. He had been able to map much of central Africa's waterways, but his later journeys appeared to be failures, although they provided the western world with vivid descriptions of the hitherto unknown interior of Africa. In 1871 the New York Herald sent one of its journalists, Henry Stanley, to find him, leading to one of the most famous meetings in exploration history. This biography provides an account of Livingstone's life, from his humble beginnings in Scotland, and his struggle to gain medical qualifications, to his employment with the London Missionary Society and his search for the source of the Nile.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-112).
- ISBN:
- 0750915919
- OCLC:
- 39110731
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