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Chargement... Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone (2003)par Martin Dugard
   Page Turners (159) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) franniepuck | May 7, 2023 |  "The Endurance", by Caroline Alexander, about Shackleton's rescue from the Antartic; "Into Thin Air", by Jon Krakaur, about a disastrous expedition to Mt. Everest; or "Miracle in the Andes", by Nando Parrado about a plane crash in the Andes and subsequent rescue. The common theme in all those is that some misfortune befell the travellers / adventurers, and they had no choice but to try to find their way out of their troubles. Into Africa is different in that you find an adventurer who willingly leaves the comfort of civilization to put himself into the types of hardship that these others need rescuing from. To read about the individuals who took on the unknown, facing brutal heat, cannibals, floods, near starvation, animal attacks, unfriendly tribes, Muslim slave traders, stolen provisions, bugs and diseases of all types, all for a sense of discovery and adventure is mind-boggling. Definately worth a look if you've ever been curious as to who Stanley and Livingston really were, or how they ended up meeting in Africa. (  ) rsutto22 | Jul 15, 2021 | taurus27 | Jul 3, 2019 | ) BookConcierge | Feb 10, 2016 |  ) konastories | Jan 28, 2014 |
 “Doctor Livingstone, I presume?” Thus concluded a two year journey through jungles, deserts and battlefields in east Africa in 1871. In a different way, that famous greeting concluded an era of African history, and marked the beginning of the period of European colonialism. It’s a neat fulcrum in geopolitical history, but its immediate significance to the Arab and African witnesses was mostly seeing two white men in the same village. Henry Morton Stanley’s greeting of the long-lost British explorer David Livingstone changed European thinking about Africa. What was once the land of impossible danger now became the land of opportunity. Stanley’s American flag also stirred the pot of European tribal jealousies, leading to a competitive atmosphere among the kings and princes in Europe. Even at the height of the slave trade, Europeans rarely ventured into the African back-country, preferring instead to buy slaves right on the coast. All the same, the slave trade was a social earthquake throughout Africa. The crack cocaine of its day, slave-trading brought incredible sums of money for very little work to minor kings and chiefs in the backcountry, and over the course of a few centuries, entire civilizations were depopulated of their brightest and best. . . . Into Africa tells the story of Stanley’s quest to find Livingstone. It was the most famous story of its day, but the details have been largely forgotten today. But author Martin Dugard doesn’t put two white actors against a backdrop of mute and stupid black extras. He places them into a living, breathing world of real people – fighters and lovers, scoundrels and saints. It’s a great read and an eye-opening story. Listes notables
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HTML:What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account. With the utterance of a single line????Doctor Livingstone, I presume????a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. Into Africa is an extraordinarily researched account of a thrilling adventure??defined by alarming foolishness, intense courage, and raw human achievement. In the mid-1860s, exploration had reached a plateau. The seas and continents had been mapped, the globe circumnavigated. Yet one vexing puzzle remained unsolved: what was the source of the mighty Nile river? Aiming to settle the mystery once and for all, Great Britain called upon its legendary explorer, Dr. David Livingstone, who had spent years in Africa as a missionary. In March 1866, Livingstone steered a massive expedition into the heart of Africa. In his path lay nearly impenetrable, uncharted terrain, hostile cannibals, and deadly predators. Within weeks, the explorer had vanished without a trace. Years passed with no word. While debate raged in England over whether Livingstone could be found??or rescued??from a place as daunting as Africa, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the brash American newspaper tycoon, hatched a plan to capitalize on the world??s fascination with the missing legend. He would send a young journalist, Henry Morton Stanley, into Africa to search for Livingstone. A drifter with great ambition, but little success to show for it, Stanley undertook his assignment with gusto, filing reports that would one day captivate readers and dominate the front page of the New York Herald. Tracing the amazing journeys of Livingstone and Stanley in alternating chapters, author Martin Dugard captures with breathtaking immediacy the perils and challenges these men faced. Woven into the narrative, Dugard tells an equally compelling story of the remarkable transformation that occurred over the course of nine years, as Stanley rose in power and prominence and Livingstone found himself alone and in mortal danger. The first book to draw on modern research and to explore the combination of adventure, politics, and larger-than-life personalities involved, Into Africa Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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