Livingstone by Tim Jeal
Livingstone by Tim Jeal
Hardcover, ISBN 9780434372089
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 1973
Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some signs of age related wear and tear on the sides and spine but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Previous owners named inscribed on first page and slight spotting on text block and cover. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
Tim Jeal's classic biography published to mark the bicentenary of the great explorer David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting edition, Jeal draws on fresh sources and archival discoveries to provide the most fully rounded portrait of this complicated man-dogged by failure throughout his life despite his full share of success. Using Livingstone's original field notebooks, Jeal finds that the explorer's problems with his African followers were far graver than previously understood. From recently discovered letters he elaborates on the explorer's decision to send his wife Mary back home to England. He also uncovers fascinating information about Livingstone's importance to the British Empire and about his relationship with the journalist-adventurer Henry Morton Stanley. In addition Jeal here evokes the full pathos of the explorer's final journey. This masterful, biography also features an excellent selection of maps and illustrations.
David Livingstone as one of the world's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo. Tim Jeal's masterful biography reveals the man behind the myth, one capable of ruthless cruelty as well as self-sacrifice and bravery, one dogged all his life by failure as well as success. Selected as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post Book Review.
About the author
Tim Jeal is the author of acclaimed biographies of Livingstone and Baden-Powell. His memoir, Swimming with My Father, was published by Faber in 2004 and was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He is also a novelist and a former winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
