Looking For Mrs Livingstone

Author : Julie Davidson
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0715209647
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking for Mrs. Livingstone written by Julie Davidson and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the enthralling story of the extraordinarily courageous and stoical wife of the world-renowned explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. In the history books, Mary Livingstone is a shadow in the blaze of her husband's sun, a whisper in the thunderclap of his reputation. Yet she played an important role in Livingstone's success and her own feats as an early traveller in uncharted Africa are unique. She was the first white woman to cross the Kalahari, which she did twice - pregnant - giving birth in the bush on the second journey. She was much more rooted in southern Africa than her husband: he has a tomb in Westminster Abbey, London; she has an obscure and crumbling grave on the banks of the Zambezi in a destitute region of Mozambique. In the thrall of Africa, the author has travelled extensively over several years in the footsteps of Mary Livingstone, from her birthplace in a remote district of South Africa to her grave on the Zambezi. She explores the places the Livingstones knew as a couple and, above all, explores the detail of the life and family of this little-known figure in British - but not African - history.

Author : Julie Davidson
Publisher : Saint Andrew Press
ISBN 13 : 0861537637
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking for Mrs Livingstone written by Julie Davidson and published by Saint Andrew Press. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the enthralling and acclaimed story of an extraordinary and courageous woman. Her bravery, stoicism and African upbringing were critical to the career of her husband, world-renowned explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. Evocative and beautifully written.

Author : Christophe Cassiau-Haurie
Publisher : Catalyst Press
ISBN 13 : 9781946395474
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Livingstone: The Great War in the Congo written by Christophe Cassiau-Haurie and published by Catalyst Press. This book was released on 2021-06-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meeting of two men, in a war that is not theirsIn Central Africa during the First World War, aviator Gaston Mercier, lieutenant in the Royal Belgian Army, was responsible for sinking a German battleship on Lake Tanganyika. To find out its exact position, he is assigned a somewhat special guide ... The latter, an enigmatic half-breed in kilt who seems much more educated than the other natives, claims to be the son of the famous explorer David Livingstone. Little by little, while the war between Belgian and German colonial powers is raging in the heart of the black continent, the young Belgian pilot will try to learn a little more about the history of this man who is called "Madame Livingstone" .Based on an Apollo story, Christophe Cassiau-Haurie mixes adventure and friendship here against the backdrop of World War I in Africa. The Congo's unique magnificence is presented in full color illustrations by Congloese artist Barly Baruti.

Author : Tim Jeal
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300192126
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Livingstone written by Tim Jeal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A superb biography, not to be missed either by armchair explorers or students of human nature…reveals the famed missionary and explorer as he really was.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer David Livingstone is revered as one of history’s greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new edition of his biography, Tim Jeal, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Stanley, draws on fresh sources and archival discoveries to provide the most fully rounded portrait of this complicated man—dogged by failure throughout his life despite his full share of success. Using Livingstone’s original field notebooks, Jeal finds that the explorer’s problems with his African followers were far graver than previously understood. From recently discovered letters he elaborates on the explorer’s decision to send his wife, Mary, back home to England. He also uncovers fascinating information about Livingstone’s importance to the British Empire and about his relationship with the journalist-adventurer Henry Morton Stanley. In addition, Jeal here evokes the full pathos of the explorer’s final journey. This masterful, updated biography also features an excellent selection of new maps and illustrations. “Fascinating.”—Los Angeles Times “A thrilling and in the end moving work…The Livingstone who emerges is a man of terrifying dimensions.”—Irish Press

Author : Justin Livingstone
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847799124
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Livingstone's 'lives' written by Justin Livingstone and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Livingstone, the ‘missionary-explorer’, has attracted more commentary than nearly any other Victorian hero. Beginning in the years following his death, he soon became the subject of a major biographical tradition. Yet out of this extensive discourse, no unified image of Livingstone emerges. Rather, he has been represented in diverse ways and in a variety of socio-political contexts. Until now, no one has explored Livingstone’s posthumous reputation in full. This book meets the challenge. In approaching Livingstone’s complex legacy, it adopts a metabiographical perspective: in other words, this book is a biography of biographies. Rather than trying to uncover the true nature of the subject, metabiography is concerned with the malleability of biographical representation. It does not aim to uncover Livingstone’s ‘real’ identity, but instead asks: what has he been made to mean? Crossing disciplinary boundaries, Livingstone’s 'lives' will interest scholars of imperial history, postcolonialism, life-writing, travel-writing and Victorian studies.

Author : David Livingstone
Publisher : Eldorado Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780985467814
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Livingstone I Presume written by David Livingstone and published by Eldorado Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story of Dr. Livingstone's Travels in Africa in search of the Source of the Nile. The Zambesi and its Tributaries were explored by this intrepid Adventurer.

Author : Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446746
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Dr. Livingstone written by Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eye-opening perspective on Stanley’s expedition reveals new details about the Victorian explorer and his African crew on the brink of the colonial Scramble for Africa. In 1871, Welsh American journalist Henry M. Stanley traveled to Zanzibar in search of the “missing” Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone. A year later, Stanley emerged to announce that he had “found” and met with Livingstone on Lake Tanganyika. His alleged utterance there, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume,” was one of the most famous phrases of the nineteenth century, and Stanley’s book, How I Found Livingstone, became an international bestseller. In this fascinating volume Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi and James L. Newman transcribe and annotate the entirety of Stanley’s documentation, making available for the first time in print a broader narrative of Stanley’s journey that includes never-before-seen primary source documents—worker contracts, vernacular plant names, maps, ruminations on life, lines of poetry, bills of lading—all scribbled in his field notebooks. Finding Dr. Livingstone is a crucial resource for those interested in exploration and colonization in the Victorian era, the scientific knowledge of the time, and the peoples and conditions of Tanzania prior to its colonization by Germany.

Author : C. Silvestre Horne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752353848
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Livingstone written by C. Silvestre Horne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: David Livingstone by C. Silvestre Horne

Author : Edward Daniel Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search After Livingstone written by Edward Daniel Young and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Faulkner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elephant Haunts: Being a Sportsman's Narrative of the Search for Doctor Livingstone, with Scenes of Elephant, Buffalo, and Hippopotamus Hunting written by Henry Faulkner and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: