David Livingstone (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333740415)

A biography of David Livingstone giving a balanced account of his strengths and weaknesses. Revered for years as a saint, he was in fact a much more interesting character, difficult, demanding and unsympathetic but also single minded, determined, patient and outstandingly brave. At ten he worked a fourteen hour day in a mill and at sixty was buried in Westminster Abbey. The first European to cross Africa, he discovered the Victoria Falls and survived shipwreck, attacks by natives and being mauled by a lion.

Author: M. Buxton
ISBN-10: 0333740416
ISBN-13: 9780333740415
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/19/2001
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.84h x 5.86w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2002 pg. 1097
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 44