Buxton David Livingstone

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-230-28652-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave History Collection

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buxton, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgements Chronology Note of Spelling Abbreviations used in Notes Foreword by David Livingstone Wilson Blantyre: The Boy Glasgow, Chipping Ongar and London: The Student Kuruman and Mabotsa: The Newcomer Chonuane and Kolonbeng: The Missionary Lake Ngami, The River Zouga and Cape Town; The Traveller To the West Coast of Africa: The Pioneer Across Africa from West to East; Great Leader of Africans Britain: National Hero The Zambesi and Shire Rivers: Flawed Leader of Europeans The Shire and Rovuma Rivers: The Husband The Indian Ocean: Ship's Captain Britain: Author and Father Lakes Nyassa, Tanganyika and Moeru; The Explorer Ujiji and Unyanyembe: Scoop To Chitambo's Village: The Dying Man From Africa to Westminster Abbey: Venerated Leader From Blantyre to Westminster Abbey: Neither Saint for Failure Appendix: Livingstone's Alleged Love Child Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

MERIEL BUXTON read Law at St Hugh's College, Oxford and is a qualified but non-practising solicitor.