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David Livingstone

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  • © 2001

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  1. Meriel Buxton
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Blantyre: the Boy

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 1-7

  3. Glasgow, Chipping Ongar and London: the Student

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 8-22

  4. Kuruman and Mabotsa: the Newcomer

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 23-42

  5. Chonuane and Kolobeng: the Missionary

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 43-57

  6. Lake Ngami, the River Zouga and Cape Town: the Traveller

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 58-74

  7. To the West Coast of Africa: the Pioneer

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 75-87

  8. Across Africa from West to East: Great Leader of Africans

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 88-98

  9. Britain: National Hero

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 99-110

  10. The Zambesi and Shire Rivers: Flawed Leader of Europeans

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 111-123

  11. The Shire and Rovuma Rivers: the Husband

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 124-134

  12. The Indian Ocean: Ship’s Captain

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 135-139

  13. Britain: Author and Father

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 140-150

  14. Lakes Nyassa, Tanganyika and Moero: the Explorer

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 151-163

  15. Ujiji and Unyanyembe: Scoop

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 164-172

  16. To Chitambo’s Village: the Dying Man

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 173-175

  17. From Africa to Westminster Abbey: Venerated Leader

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 176-180

  18. From Blantyre to Westminster Abbey: neither Saint nor Failure

    • Meriel Buxton
    Pages 181-198

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 199-215
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About this book

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.

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'...a clear, succinct, and balanced assessment of Livingstone's complex character, achievements and failures and enduring legacy.' - Choice

'...this is an admirably concise, carefully considered and well-argued account of Livingstone's achievements and failures in the light both of his time and ours...warmly recommended as the best possible modern introduction to an extraordinary, if not always very sympathetic character.' - John Spurling, Times Literary Supplement

About the author

MERIEL BUXTON read Law at St Hugh's College, Oxford and is a qualified but non-practising solicitor.

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