Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire

by Clare Pettitt

Book Overview

When the American reporter Henry Morton Stanley stepped out of the jungle in 1871 and doffed his pith helmet to the Scottish missionary-explorer Dr. David Livingstone, his greeting was to take on mythological proportions. But do any of us really know what his words meant at the time--and what they have come to mean since?

Far from meeting in a remote thicket in "Darkest Africa," Stanley met Livingstone in the middle of a thriving Muslim...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674024877
• ISBN13: 9780674024878
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.4"