Journey to Livingstone - Exploration of an Imperial Myth - Timothy Holmes

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Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Published: 1993 by Canongate Press

ISBN10: 0862414024

Condition: Very Good+. This book is in an excellent condition. The DJ has only some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Previous owner name neatly inscribed.The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.

This book follows the evolution of Dr David Livingstone's aspirations from his childhood in Scotland to his death beside a swamp in Central Africa, and finally to his posthumous apotheosis. The author of this book conceals none of Livingstone's blemishes whether in dealings with his wife and family or in his psychotic approach to those whom he felt had opposed, hindered or slighted him. Livingstone's life is set against the burgeoning of an empire upon which it was thought the sun would never set. He emerges as a nobler man that even his most ardent followers have insisted.
320 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1993