David Livingstone

David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century Moffatt missionary family. Livingstone came to have a mythic status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion. As a result, Livingstone became one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era.

Livingstone's fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile River was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab–Swahili slave trade. "The Nile sources", he told a friend, "are valuable only as a means of opening my mouth with power among men. It is this power [with] which I hope to remedy an immense evil." His subsequent exploration of the central African watershed was the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of Africa. At the same time, his missionary travels, "disappearance", and eventual death in Africaand subsequent glorification as a posthumous national hero in 1874led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa". Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1860
    Philadelphia : Evans, 1860.
    xiv, 3-442 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1872
    Philadelphia : Hubbard Bros., [1872]
    xvi, 598 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1870
    [Paris? : s.n., 187-?]
    xxiv, 306 p. ; 19 cm.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1875
    London, J. Murray, 1875.
    xii, 416 p. fold. front., illus., plates. fold. map. 20 cm.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1859
    New York : Harper & Bros., 1859.
    xxiv, 755 p., [3] folded plates : ill., maps, port. ; 23 cm.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1869
    Paris : Hachette, 1869.
    xix, 339 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1881
    Paris : Hachette, 1881.
    688 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1873
    London : J. Murray, 1873.
    ix, 436 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1859
    Philadelphia, J.W. Bradley, 1859.
    xiv, 440 p. incl. front., illus., plates. 20 cm.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1905
    London : Maclaren, 1905.
    xiv, 447 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1859
    Philadelphia, J.W. Bradley, 1859.
    1 online resource (xiv, [3]-442 p.) incl. front., illus., plates.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1859
    New York : Harper & Brothers, 1859.
    1 online resource (xxiv, 755 p., [3] fold. plates) : ill., maps, port.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1869
    Paris : Hachette, 1869.
    xix, 339 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1875
    London, J. Murray, 1875.
    1 online resource (xii, 416 p.) : fold. front., illus., plates. fold. map.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1905
    London : Maclaren, 1905.
    1 online resource (xiv, 447 p., [20] leaves of plates) : ill.
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    by Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
    Published 1870
    [Paris? : s.n., 187-?]
    1 online resource (xxiv, 306 p.)
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    by Oswell, William Edward
    Published 1900
    London : William Heinemann, 1900.
    2 v. (xxiv, 267 p., [3] folded leaves; xi, 289 p., [1] p. of plates) : ill., maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.
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    by Ingersoll, Lurton Dunham
    Published 1872
    Chicago, San Francisco, Union Pub. Co.; A.L. Bancroft & Co., 1872.
    8 p. l., 17-449 p. incl. front., plates, ports., 2 maps. fold. map. 23 cm.
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    by Ingersoll, Lurton Dunham
    Published 1872
    Chicago, San Francisco, Union Pub. Co.; A.L. Bancroft & Co., 1872.
    1 online resource (4 p. 1., [5]-8, [4], 17-420 p. incl. front., plates, ports., 2 maps. map.)
    Other Authors: “...Livingstone, David, 1813-1873...”
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    London, Chatto & Windus, 1945.
    xxxiii, 268 p. 2 port. (incl. front.), fold. map. 27 cm.
    Other Authors: “...Livingstone, David, 1813-1873...”
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