Livingstone /
Born in an overcrowded slum near Glasgow in 1813, David Livingstone spent his boyhood and youth working in a cotton mill. Yet he still found time to educate himself and eventually became a doctor. He went to Africa as a medical missionary in 1841 and stayed for thirty years. Missionary, geographer,...
| Основен автор: | Jeal, Tim. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
G. P. Putnam's Sons,
c1973.
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| Издание: | 1st American ed. |
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Livingstone. |
| Резюме: |
Born in an overcrowded slum near Glasgow in 1813, David Livingstone spent his boyhood and youth working in a cotton mill. Yet he still found time to educate himself and eventually became a doctor. He went to Africa as a medical missionary in 1841 and stayed for thirty years. Missionary, geographer, astronomer, ethnologist, anthropologist, chemist, and botanist, he discovered the Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo and made the first authenticated European crossing of the continent. Published to coincide with the centenary of Livingstone's death in 1873, this book is a comprehensive biography of his life which uses an abundance of new source material to understand the man and separate him from the deeply ingrained legend. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
xiv, 427 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliography (p. [391]-394) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0399112154 9780399112157 |