David Livingstone

Buxton, M.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-04-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333740415

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286528

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 224