David Livingstone- Missionary and Explorer

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Author:
Sam Wellman

Publisher:
Barbour and Company

Year:
1995

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“The smoke of a thousand villages beckoned him… and where there’s smoke, there someday would be fire. To go where no missionary had ever been, to smell the smoke of unknown villages, to witness peoples beyond the vast Kalahari, such were the dreams of David Livingstone. 
While perhaps best remembered as the recipient of Henry Stanley’s understated query (“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”), the humble Livingstone disdained acclaim during his lifetime. Born into poverty in Scotland, and educated in medicine, he was first sent to South Africa in 1840 but at once recognized the dearth of missionaries in the northern regions.
Exhaustion, serious illness, and wild animals, not to mention the murderous activities of slave traders, became commonplace as Dr Livingstone journeyed to Angola, then to Mozambique, and later, Victoria Falls. Driven by his faith, and his sense of outrage, Livingstone’s life and writings would ignite the Dark Continent as never before.   206 pages paperback