Livingstone: Revised and Expanded EditionYale University Press, 19. 2. 2013 - Počet stran: 563 “A superb biography, not to be missed either by armchair explorers or students of human nature…reveals the famed missionary and explorer as he really was.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer David Livingstone is revered as one of history’s greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new edition of his biography, Tim Jeal, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Stanley, draws on fresh sources and archival discoveries to provide the most fully rounded portrait of this complicated man—dogged by failure throughout his life despite his full share of success. Using Livingstone’s original field notebooks, Jeal finds that the explorer’s problems with his African followers were far graver than previously understood. From recently discovered letters he elaborates on the explorer’s decision to send his wife, Mary, back home to England. He also uncovers fascinating information about Livingstone’s importance to the British Empire and about his relationship with the journalist-adventurer Henry Morton Stanley. In addition, Jeal here evokes the full pathos of the explorer’s final journey. This masterful, updated biography also features an excellent selection of new maps and illustrations. “Fascinating.”—Los Angeles Times “A thrilling and in the end moving work…The Livingstone who emerges is a man of terrifying dimensions.”—Irish Press |
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REVERSAL | |
The Zambesi Expedition Sets Sail | |
The Rocks in Gods Highway 1858 | |
the Shire and Lake Nyassa 18591860 | |
Death of a Fighting Bishop | |
the End of the Zambesi Expedition 18621864 | |
REJECTION | |
The Last Visit Home 18641865 | |
Mabotsa 18441845 | |
Chonuane 18451847 | |
Kolobeng 18471849 | |
ACHIEVEMENT | |
North to the Zambesi 18491851 | |
Return to Linyanti 18521853 | |
From Coast to Coast 18531856 | |
FAME | |
the First Visit Home 18561858 | |
the Makololo Mission 18571860 | |
Her Majestys Consul | |
ATONEMENT | |
Nyassa to Tanganyika 18661869 | |
Fantasy in Manyuema 18691871 | |
Stanley and the Livingstone Myth | |
The Last Journey 18721873 | |
Livingstone and the British Empire | |
The Date of the StanleyLivingstone Meeting | |
SOURCES | |