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David Livingstone: man, myth and legacy
No full textDavid Livingstone (1813-73) rose from being a factory boy in the west of Scotland to become an African explorer and a hero of the Victorian age. He was the first European to document Malawi in the mid 1800s and he continues to be remembered there - and in the David Livingstone Centre in his birthplace Blantyre, which holds a wide range of his personal belongings and travel aids.
The essays assembled in this book present a twenty-first view of David Livingstone - the man, the myth and the legacy.
They engage not only with matters of history - his life and work as explorer, doctor and missionary - but also with the ways in which he as been memorialised, and his contemporary significance
The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his Death
No full textOne of the most renowned nineteenth-century British explorers of Africa, David Livingstone (1813–73) was a medical missionary who received the Royal Geographical Society gold medal in 1855. His fame was established by his 1853–6 coast-to-coast exploration of the African interior, and by the best-selling Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, published upon his return to England in 1857 (also reissued in this series). Livingstone's last expedition in search of 'the true source of the Nile', undertaken in 1866, forms the core of this two-volume travel diary, published posthumously in 1874. Volume 2 describes the last two years of his life, when, after his meeting with the journalist Henry Morton Stanley in 1871, Livingstone insisted on staying in Africa despite his poor health. It includes details about his death and the journey to bring his body back to the British authorities, reported by Livingstone's attendants Chuma and Susi.</jats:p
The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his Death
No full textOne of the most renowned nineteenth-century British explorers of Africa, David Livingstone (1813–73) was a medical missionary who received the Royal Geographical Society gold medal in 1855. His fame was established by his 1853–6 coast-to-coast exploration of the African interior, and by the best-selling Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, published upon his return to England in 1857 (also reissued in this series). Livingstone's last expedition in search of 'the true source of the Nile', undertaken in 1866, forms the core of this two-volume travel diary, published posthumously in 1874. Volume 1 describes his illness-plagued journey from Zanzibar to Ujiji, in Western Tanzania. It also records his 1871 encounter with the New York Herald correspondent and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who had been dispatched to find him after Livingstone had been cut off from the outside world for so long that he was presumed dead.</jats:p
David Livingstone: man, myth and legacy
No full textDavid Livingstone (1813-73) rose from being a factory boy in the west of Scotland to become an African explorer and a hero of the Victorian age. He was the first European to document Malawi in the mid 1800s and he continues to be remembered there - and in the David Livingstone Centre in his birthplace Blantyre, which holds a wide range of his personal belongings and travel aids. The essays assembled in this book present a twenty-first view of David Livingstone - the man, the myth and the legacy. They engage not only with matters of history - his life and work as explorer, doctor and missionary - but also with the ways in which he as been memorialised, and his contemporary significance
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MRL1: David Livingstone Papers, 1856; 1957
Get PDFDavid Livingstone was a Congregationalist medical missionary assigned to Africa by London Missionary Society, continued exploration with Royal Geographical Society. Collection contains single letter and poster of postcards from Scottish National Memorial to Livingstone in Blantyre, Scotland
African Nationalist or Imperial Agent – David #Livingstone analysed
No full textLSE’s Benedict Greening reports from the Imperial Obsessions conference in Zambia where scholars recently gathered to debate the man and the myth of the Scottish explorer David Livingstone
David Livingstone
No full textBlack/white photo. Original document size: (w)4.74 x (h)7 cm. Original scanned size: 178 kb JPEG, 600 dpi. Final web-ready size: 25.21 kb. Estimate download time: 10 sec. @ 28.8 kbps. Original TIFF file housed at the Dept. Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria. Metadata assigned by Prof. RC Tustin, Professor Emeritus: DVTD. His academic and professional experience includes: veterinarian for 54 years,
senior lecturer at UP for 7 years, head of Department at UP for 17 years and Veterinary Council for 3 years.Missionaries, such as David Livingstone, travelling in Africa, were among the first to encounter the many African diseases of livestock during their travels. Livingstone, in 1857, is wrongly credited with the first report of anthrax in Southern Africa. The first was J.E. Alexander in 1838.http://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/bliving4.htm
David Livingstone, missionnaire, voyageur et philanthrope, 1813-1873, par Rodolphe Reuss, Paris, Fischbacher, 1885
No full textHimly Auguste. David Livingstone, missionnaire, voyageur et philanthrope, 1813-1873, par Rodolphe Reuss, Paris, Fischbacher, 1885. In: La revue pédagogique, tome 6, Janvier-Juin 1885. pp. 550-552
Zambia conference celebrates the life and legacy of Scottish explorer David Livingstone
No full textJoanna Lewis is one of the organisers of the international conference, Imperial Obsessions: David Livingstone, Africa and world history: a life and legacy considered which takes place in Livingstone from 19th to 21st April
David Livingstone and Africa. — Edinburgh, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1973
No full textRenault François. David Livingstone and Africa. — Edinburgh, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1973. In: Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer, tome 62, n°229, 4e trimestre 1975. pp. 694-695
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