A BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF LIVINGSTONE AS AN EXPLORER AND A MISSIONARY
LIVINGSTONE, David – Andrew C. ROSS. David Livingstone: Mission and Empire. London and New York: Cambridge University Press for Hambleton and London, 2002.
Octavo (234 x 156mm), pp. XIV, 274. 4 half-tone plates with illustrations recto-and-verso, illustrations, maps, and plans in the text, some full-page. Original blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, dustwrapper, not price-clipped. (Dustwrapper slightly faded on spine, upper flap slightly creased.) A very good copy.
First edition. ‘David Livingstone (1813-1873) was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire. Yet his career suffered many setbacks during his own lifetime, and since his death his reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal. Were his epic journeys through Africa purely to save souls and counter the slave trade? Or were they the first steps towards bringing the peoples of Central Africa under the control of Europeans who would destroy their values and exploit them economically? Beyond these questions, there lies the puzzle of Livingstone’s own character and its contradictions. […]. David Livingstone: Mission and Empire is a scholarly and readable account of the life and achievements of one of the greatest Victorians’ (dustwrapper blurb).
£19.50
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