Livingstone and his African journeys

By Elspeth Huxley

Book Overview

David Livingstone's journey in Central Africa put more on the map of the dark continent than any other explorer's. He was the first European to cross Africa. He traced the Zambesi to its source and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0841502897
• ISBN13: 9780841502895
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Saturday Review Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Valuable for the illustrations

This is not one of the more popular revisionary bios of Livingstone, but anyone interested in his life or Africa at this time in history will do well to pick up a copy of this book for the 16 pages of color plates and the 100 black and white illustrations. The photograph of Livingstone with the rhino horn was obviously taken pre-Freud.