David Livingstone

Written just forty years after David Livingstone's death, this admiring account of the famous missionary's life and work takes us deep into the ';dark continent' of nineteenth-century Africa, where he labored to bring ';Christianity, commerce and civilization.' A national hero in Victorian Britain, Livingstone earned fame as an explorer and scientific investigator, an antislavery crusader, and imperial reformer, as well as in the role of a Protestant missionary and martyr who eventually died in Africa of malaria.';In those forty years great and astounding changes have been witnessed in the Continent which is associated with his fameBut nothing that has happened since has diminished by a single laurel the wreath he won, and will wear for everLivingstone is greatest, not as a scientist, nor an explorer, but as a man and a missionary.'from the book