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David Livingstone

The Unexplored Story

David Livingstone

The Unexplored Story

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£9.99

Publisher: SPCK Publishing
ISBN: 9780745955681
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 01/09/9900
Width: 13 cm
Height: 19.8 cm
David Livingstone has gone down in history as a fearless explorer and missionary, hacking his way through the forests of Africa to bring light to the people - and also to free them from slavery. But who was he, and what was he actually like? "He was an extraordinary character," according to biographer Stephen Tomkins, spectacularly bad at personal relationships, at least with white people, possessed of infinite self-belief, courage, and restlessness. He was an almost total failure as a missionary, and so became an explorer and campaigner against the slave trade, hoping to save African lives and souls that way instead. He helped, however unwittingly, to set the tone and the extent of British involvement in Africa. He was a flawed but indomitable idealist. Fascinating new evidence about Livingstone's life and his struggles have come to light in the letters and journals he left behind, now accessible to us for the first time through spectral imaging. These form a significant addition to the source material for this excellent biography, which provides an honest and balanced account of the real man behind the Victorian icon.
CONTENTS 1. The Mill 5 2. Mission 11 3. Joining Up 19 4. A New World 27 5. The Pioneer 39 6. Conflict in Mabotsa 51 7. Drought in Chonwane 61 8. Salvation in Kolobeng 69 9. Lake Ngami 75 10. Sebitwane 83 11. "Orphaning My Children" 91 12. A Long Walk 99 13. Two Oceans 105 14. National Hero 117 15. The Zambezi Expedition 129 16. Another Highway 137 17. Return to Linyanti 147 18. Freedom to the Captives 155 19. Defeat 165 20. Furlough 175 21. The Last Expedition 185 22. Misery 193 23. Ujiji to the Lualaba 201 24. Massacre 207 25. Stanley 217 26. Last Steps 225 27. The Long Run 231 Endnotes 238 Index 239

Stephen Tomkins

STEPHEN TOMKINS has a PhD in Church History from London Bible College. An experienced journalist, he is a contributing editor to the Ship of Fools website. He is the author of David Livingstone, John Wesley: A Biography (Lion, 2003) and Paul and His World (Lion, 2004).

This new, well written book reveals much about the man. It the man far more human than perhaps anyone else realised. It has taught me much about a man of whom I realise now I knew little. It makes me want to learn more. -- Christopher Wardale * The lance * It has taught me much about a man of whom I realise now I knew little. It makes me want to learn more. -- Christopher Wardale * The Lance * Tomkins re-humanises Livingstone and sees in him a far more interesting person than the figure of old Sunday School teaching ever appeared. -- Christopher Wardale * The Lance * `It is not simply a collection of joined up diary recollections, but a cogent, coherent and topical analysis of his life' -- Lynne McNeil * Life and Work *

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