Free from the library.
Short on details, but you're warned of this from the beginning, though it's a shame because it is a fascinating story.
Easy to read, moves along nicely. ( )

This is a good biography;I wavered between three and four stars. My reason for the lower rating is twofold. First, I was irritated by the author's dismissive tone concerning Sheppard's religious beliefs. At one point fairly early in the book, she describes Sheppard hunting to help feed people and comments that he seemed to see feeding people as more important than "filling their minds with Bible verses" as if that was the typical missionary's goal. My other problem was the lack of real historical depth. The author makes claims about Southern Presbyterians and also about other historical figures in the Congo and in England that I would have liked to see more fully explored. I thought the end notes clearly suggested a lack of deep historical scholarship. All in all, however, this is a good introduction to an amazing person and time, if the reader maintains awareness of the book's limitations. ( )

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