David Livingstone

By Meriel Buxton

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333740416
• ISBN13: 9780333740415
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"