David Livingstone (by C. Silvester Horne)

DAVID LIVINGSTONE by C. Silvester Horne (unabridged) is presented by Blackstone Audio and comes with what is perhaps the best audiobook app available (see FEATURES, below).

“It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.” (David Livingstone)

A national hero in Victorian Britain, David Livingstone earned fame as an explorer and scientific investigator, an antislavery crusader, and imperial reformer. This admiring account of Livingstone’s life and work takes us deep into the “dark continent” of nineteenth-century Africa, where he labored to bring “Christianity, commerce, and civilization,” and emphasizes his role as a Protestant missionary and martyr.

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RATING: Suitable for adults who want to learn more about Colonial Africa, or who enjoy biographies.

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Written just forty years after David Livingstone’s death, this admiring account of the famous missionary’s life and work takes us deep into the “dark continent” of nineteenth-century Africa, where he labored to bring “Christianity, commerce and civilization.” A national hero in Victorian Britain, Livingstone earned fame as an explorer, scientific investigator, antislavery crusader and imperial reformer, as well as in the role of a Protestant martyr who eventually died in Africa of malaria. As a story of adventure, faith, and inspiration, it needs no embellishment, and the author elegantly allows “the story to tell itself.”