ISBN:
0-7126-5638-3
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978-0-7126-5638-2
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 425 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
Pimlico edition
Series Statement:
Pimlico 76
Keywords:
Afrika Afrika-Forscher
;
Forschungsreise
;
Entdeckungsgeschichte
;
Mission, christliche
;
Biographie
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Livingston, David (1813-1873)
Abstract:
Hailed as an explorer unrivalled since the Elizabethan era, Livingstone was also revered by the Victorians as a near saint - a myth in his own lifetime. This biography attempts to show that this myth of Livingstone was, in actual fact, a distortion of the truth and that the real man was far more remarkable - a man capable of ruthless cruelty as well as self-sacrifice, and dogged all his life by contradiction and failure; for Livingstone failed as a missionary, failed as a parent and failed on his search for the Nile's source.Yet by stripping sentimentality from Livingstone's life, this outstanding book has enhanced rather than diminished it. Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo. He made the first authenticated crossing of Africa by a European. He was brave beyond belief, an incorrigible optimist, and his enduring legacy lay in ideas which would in time transform not only Britain's awareness of Africa and Africans but also its entire Imperial role.
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Note on spelling -- Introduction: a contradictory hero -- One. Aspiration. 1. Factory Boy, 1813-1836. 2. Medical studies and missionary training, 1836-1840. 3. Africa and South Africa in 1841. 4. Early disappointment: Kuruman, 1841-1843. 5. A false start: Mabotsa, 1844-1845. 6. Livingstone and the Boers: Chonuane, 1845-1847. 7. The only convert: Kolobeng, 1847-1849. Two. Achievement. 8. North to the Zambesi, 1849-1851. 9. Return to Linyanti, 1852-1853. 10. From Coast to Coast, 1853-1856. Three. Fame. 11. National hero: the first visit home, 1856-1858. 12. The price of optimism: the Makololo Mission, 1857-1860. 13. Her Majesty's consul -- Four. Reversal. 14. The Zambesi Expedition sets sail. 15. The rocks in God's Highway, 1858. 16. Colonial dreams: the Shire and Lake Nyassa, 1859-1860. 17. Death of a fighting bishop. 18. Disaster and collapse: the end of the Zambesi Expedition, 1862-1864. Five. Rejection. 19. The last visit home, 1864-1865 -- Six. Atonement. 20. Nyassa to Tanganyika, 1866-1869. 21. Fantasy in Manyuema, 1869-1871. 22. Stanley and the Livingstone myth. 23. The last journey, 1872-1873. 24. Livingstone and the British Empire -- APPENDIX: The date of the Stanley-Livingstone meeting -- Sources -- Notes -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [389]-394First published by William Heinemann
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