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David Livingstone
- Author
- Thomas Hughes
- Narrator
- Frederick Davidson
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 21 April 2011
- Run Time
- 8 hours 46 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- African history
What to expect
Born in an overcrowded slum in Scotland in 1813, David Livingstone worked twelve-hour days in a cotton factory from age ten to twenty-four. But a pamphlet by Karl Gutzlaff changed his life. Resolved to become a missionary, he applied himself to medicine, self-educating and eventually qualifying as a doctor.
In 1841, Livingstone left for Africa as a medical missionary, where he would stay for thirty years. In that time, he became a missionary geographer, ethnologist, chemist, botanist, astronomer, anthropologist, discoverer of Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo, and the first to cross the continent. Africans revered him as a virtual saint, while his academic accomplishments became Western legend.
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Details
- Author
- Thomas Hughes
- Narrator
- Frederick Davidson
- Duration
- 8 hours 46 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 April 2011
- ISBN
- 9781481577380
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- African history
Synopsis
Born in an overcrowded slum in Scotland in 1813, David Livingstone worked twelve-hour days in a cotton factory from age ten to twenty-four. But a pamphlet by Karl Gutzlaff changed his life. Resolved to become a missionary, he applied himself to medicine, self-educating and eventually qualifying as a doctor.In 1841, Livingstone left for Africa as a medical missionary, where he would stay for thirty years. In that time, he became a missionary geographer, ethnologist, chemist, botanist, astronomer, anthropologist, discoverer of Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo, and the first to cross the continent. Africans revered him as a virtual saint, while his academic accomplishments became Western legend.
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