Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Li... - 9781108010016

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africaincluding a Sketch of Sixteen Years Residence in the Interior of Africa\nAuthor(s): David Livingstone\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108010016, 978-1108010016\nSynopsis\nThis absorbing narrative by the world famous explorer and Christian missionary, David Livingstone, [tel] 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 .