William Garden Blaikie - Personal Life of David Livingstone - 1880

William Blaikie - The personal life of David Livingstone - London, John Murray, 1880 - 504 pages - 23.5 x 15.5 cm

Condition: reasonable
Bound in original linen binding. Slight bumping on the front cover. Damage to the corners and edges of the spine and covers. Inner hinges torn. Good text block. Sometimes light foxing on the pages. Complete.

wikipedia:
The Scottish doctor and missionary David Livingstone (1813-1873) is among other things recorded in history books as the discoverer of Victoria Falls, the widest waterfalls in Africa. Later in life, he went missing, and a major search operation was launched.

In 1852, Livingstone traveled northward from Cape Town towards the Makololo settlement of Linyanti (present-day North Botswana). There, he met the new king, Sekeletu, son of Sebituane. Like his father, he was very friendly towards Livingstone. He provided him with a group of 27 Makololo to accompany him during his journey.

Livingstone departed upstream over the Zambezi in January 1854. After being followed almost to the source of the Zambezi, he headed westward towards the coast. In doing so, he entered Portuguese territory (Angola) and encountered the slave trade for the first time. This filled him with horror. After a journey of 2,400 km through largely still unknown territory, Livingstone reached Luanda, where the Portuguese received him very warmly. In September, Livingstone took the return route, but it took almost a year before he reached Linyanti again.

Less than a month later, Livingstone set out again, this time following the Zambezi downstream. On November 17, 1855, he reached a gigantic waterfall which he named the Victoria Falls. On May 10, 1856, he arrived in the Mozambican city of Quelimane, making him the first person to cross Africa from west to east. In England, Livingstone was celebrated as a hero.