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Chargement... Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857)par David Livingstone
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is THE BOOK for anyone wishing to learn about David Livingstone. This is his own personal account of his very first travels through Africa. The sketches are amazing. The narrative is sometimes hard to read through, sometimes overly wordy, but the good doctor left very little out in his recording of his adventure. ( ) A very well-written travel narrative by Scottish missionary, physician, and explorer David Livingstone. The story covers about three years of Livingstone's trek from northeastern South Africa west to Luanda in Angola and then east again to Mozambique, across what are now Zambia, Zimbabwe, Congo and Namibia, including some of the earliest written descriptions of Victoria Falls and the Zambezi River. While Livingstone's observations are often very much of the day- for instance believing that heathenism was inherently bad and that negroid racial characteristics were negative- he does not dwell on theology or race and is deeply engaged with the Africans he meets, attempting to improve their lives by campaigning against the slave trade and healing the sick. He finds their customs odd yet fascinating, learns their languages, and interacts with them as intelligent people. He also catalogs the wildlife and terrain in great detail, often for the first time in writing. Some may find it a bit long and filled with too much minutiae, but I enjoyed his humble and curious approach, not to mention his bravery. David Livingstone 1857 Narrative of his Travels in Africa includes many lithographic plates of animals and people. This particular copy was library rebound and found at the Friends of the Library book sale for $1-. Worth a lot more for sure because it's one of the earlier printings of the book. It could be original printing from England or possibly first American printing. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
This absorbing narrative by the world famous explorer and Christian missionary, David Livingstone, (1813-1873) was first published in 1857 after the President of the Royal Geographical Society asked Livingstone to give a series of public lectures on his travels in Africa. The book was a great success, but Livingstone reportedly said 'I think I would rather cross the African continent again than undertake to write another book'. Livingstone's book describes in careful detail his travels and work in parts of southern and central Africa previously unknown to Europeans. It distils the experiences and observations of sixteen years during which Livingstone bravely faced the challenges of climate, terrain and tropical disease, travelling in a small group and adopting a non-confrontational approach to the local populations. The book makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in Africa's indigenous peoples, their customs and languages, animal and plant life, geology, and mineralogy. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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