UID:
(DE-602)almafu_9960118002902883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 608 pages, 21 unnumbered pages of plates) :
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illustrations (black and white), maps (colour), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-03451-0
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration
Content:
The success of the Victorian explorer and missionary David Livingstone's first book, Missionary Travels (1857), led to his receiving government funding in 1858 for an expedition up the Zambezi River. The trip was expected to last two years, and was intended to further commercial and scientific as well as missionary aims. However, owing to internal disagreements, illness (including the death of Livingstone's wife), drought and tribal warfare, the explorers' mission took six and a half years and achieved little apart from collecting plant and geological specimens. The upper reaches of the Zambesi proved unnavigable owing to rapids and waterfalls, and the expedition was recalled. This account, published in 1865, was in part an attempt to excuse the problems which had beset the expedition, and restore Livingstone's reputation in order to gain backing for further ventures.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2011.
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Originally published: London: John Murray, 1865.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-03121-8
Language:
English
