David Livingstone: Legendary African (Great Victorians)

by Amanda Mitchison (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.27

  As a boy, David Livingstone worked 14 hours a day in the Glasgow cotton mills, but he grew up to be a legendary explorer. He travelled all over Africa, often to places where no white man had ever gone before, and had many narrow escapes. He was attacked by poison arrows, mauled by lions and consumed by ants. One of his companions was eaten by cannibals. Through all his explorations, Livingstone never forgot the hardships of his childhood: he did much to campaign against the African slave trade. But he was no saint. In this book, Amanda Mitchison portrays the lfe of one of the great Victorian heroes - warts and all.

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.27

  This is the story of David Livingstone, a tough man of Victorian Britain who would stop at nothing in his determination to be the first white man to explore Africa, even if it meant dragging his wife and children along with him. He trekked hundreds of miles through dangerous territory braving terribel illness and pain. Ages 10+.