David Livingstone,

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Author / Creator:	Horne, C. Silvester (Charles Silvester), 1865-1914.
Imprint:	New York, Macmillan Co., 1913.
Description:	viii, 248 pages illustrations, map 19 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Macmillan standard library Macmillan standard library.
Subject:	Livingstone, David, -- 1813-1873. Livingstone, David, -- 1813-1873
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3487679

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Notes:	Includes index.
Summary:	On March 19th, 1913, a hundred years will have passed since David Livingstone was born. It is only forty years since his body was carried by faithful hands from the centre of Africa to the coast that he might be buried among his peers in Westminster Abbey. Nothing that has happened since has diminished by a single laurel the wreath he won, and will wear for ever. With every decade his fame greatens; and whatever our views on African problems might be, we may all agree that her white population may well pray for a double portion of his spirit. The present biography aspires to present his life to those in our busy century who ask for short measure and a clear, simple narrative of facts. The author has not aimed so much at telling the story as at allowing the story to tell itself. It may be added that, in the belief of the writer, Livingstone is greatest, not as a scientist, nor an explorer, but as a man and a missionary. - Preface.
Other form:	Online version: Horne, C. Silvester (Charles Silvester), 1865-1914. David Livingstone. New York, The Macmillan company, 1913

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The year 1813 in which my story opens was a momentous one in the history of Europe
A voyage of five months saw Livingstone at Algoa Bay, preparing for his first journey into the interior of Africa
It is difficult to summarize Livingstone's achievements during the eleven years he had spent in Africa
Before we begin our journey with Livingstone to the coast, it will be well to pause and consider two things : firstly, the task proposed; and secondly, the equipment for the task
Livingstone found Loanda a very decayed town, but he did not fail to win many friendships
From the end of 1856 till March of 1859 Livingstone was home
When Livingstone arrived in Bombay in September, Sir Bartle Frere was Governor
When Livingstone crossed Tanganyika again to the west and disappeared into the new country, he certainly did not propose to himself more than an eight or nine months' absence
In the middle of October, 1869, when Livingstone was at Bambarre in quest of the Lualaba, Mr. Stanley was travelling from Madrid to Paris in response to an urgent telegram from Mr. James Gordon Bennett, Jr. of the New York Herald
As we have seen, Livingstone said farewell to Stanley on March 14th, 1872; and prepared to wait in Unyanyembe until his friend had reached Zanzibar
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