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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 April 2012
      02 November 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511696756
      9781108010016
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511696756
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.9kg, 788 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, History, Religion, Church History, African History, Religion: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, History, Religion, Church History, African History, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
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    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.

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