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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Livingstone. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: A contradictory hero
- Factory boy, 1813-1836
- Medical studies and missionary training, 1836-1840
- Africa and South Africa in 1841
- Early disappointment: Kuruman, 18e41-1843
- A false start: Mabotsa, 1844-1845
- Livingstone and Boers: Chonuane, 1845-1847
- The only convert: Kolobeng, 1847-1849
- North to Zambesi, 1849-1851
- Return to Linyanti, 1852-1853
- From coast to coast, 1853-1856
- National hero: the first visit home, 1856-1858
- The price of optimism: the Makololo Mission, 1857-1860
- Her Majesty's consul
- The Zambesi Expedition sets sail
- The rocks in God's highway, 1858
- Colonial dreams: the Shire and Lake Nyassa, 1859-1860
- Death of a fighting Bishop
- Disaster and collapse: the end of the Zambesi Expedition, 1862-1864
- The last visit home, 1864-1865
- Nyassa to Tanganyika, 1866-1869
- Fantasy in Manyuema, 1869-1871
- Stanley and the Livingstone myth
- The last journey, 1872-1873
- Livingstone and the British Empire
- Appendix A: The date of the Stanley-Livingstone meeting
- Appendix B: 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume?'.