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The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, 1874. E-book. Formato PDF Horace Waller   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

[The new year opened badly enough, and from letters he wrote subsequently concerning the illness which now attacked him, we gather that it left evils behind, from which he never quite recovered. The following entries were made after he regained sufficient strength, but we see how short they necessarily were, and what labour it was to make the jottings which relate to his progress towards the western shore of Lake Tanganyika. He was not able at any time during this seizure to continue the minute maps of the country in his pocket-books, which for the first time fail here.]

The Last Journals of David Livingstone: In Central Africa From 1865 to His Death. E-book. Formato PDF Horace Waller   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In the midst of the universal sorrow caused by the intelligence that Dr. Livingstone had lost his life at the furthest point to which he had penetrated in his search for the true sources of the Nile, a faint hope was indulged that some of his journals might survive the disaster: this hope, I rejoice to say, has been realized beyond the most sanguine expectations.It is due, in the first place, to his native attendants, whose faithfulness has placed his last writings at our disposal, and also to the reader, before be launches forth upon a series of travels and scientific geographical records of the most extraordinary character, to say that in the following narrative of seven years' continuous work and new discovery no break whatever occurs.We have not to deplore the loss, by accident or carelessness, of a single entry, from the time of Livingstone's departure from Zanzibar in the beginning of 1866 to the day when his note-book dropped from his hand in the village of Hala at the end of April, 1878.I trust it will not be uninteresting if I preface the history with a few words on the nature of these journals and writings as they have come to band from Central Africa.It will be remembered that when Mr. Stanley returned to England in 1872, Dr. Livingstone entrusted to his care a very large Letts' diary, sealed up and consigned to the safe keeping of his daughter. Miss Agnes Livingstone.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone (Annotated & Illustrated)Volume I. E-book. Formato EPUB Horace Waller   -  Reading Masterpieces, 2025  - 

David Livingstone was born in 1813. He was a Scottish Presbyterian medical missionary. He was known for his exploration of central Africa. He was the first European to see Queen Victoria Falls and is famous for his meeting with H M Stanley that gave rise to the phrase "Dr Livingstone I presume." As one of the most popular heroes in Victorian England, Livingstone "rags to riches" story", his daring exploration, and his strong anti-slavery stance made him the source of legend. His fame as an explorer helped drive the obsession to find the source of the Nile. His disappearance and death in Africa led to the founding of several African Christian missions.