LIVINGSTONE

TIM JEAL

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2013

Revised and expanded edition.
Hailed by the Victorians as the greatest explorer since the Elizabethan era, David Livingstone began life as a factory boy and became the first European to cross Africa and find the Congo's source. Seen as a great missionary, he was revered as a near saint — a myth in his own lifetime.

In this superb new edition of his classic biography, which was the first to shatter the Victorian myth and reveal- a darker personality, Tim Jeal draws on fresh sources to provide the most fully rounded portrait yet of this complicated man, dogged for years by private and public failure, despite his full share of success. Jeal uses Livingstone's field notebooks — recently made legible by imaging technology — to show that the explorer's problems with his African followers were far graver than previously understood. With additional new information, he re-examines Livingstone's importance to the British Empire and his relationship with the journalist-adventurer, Henry M. Stanley. Jeal also elaborates on Livingstone's decision to send his wife, Mary, to Britain, and evokes the full pathos and courage of his fight against the slave trade and his agonizing final journey. This masterly updated biography contains many new illustrations and maps.

21 x 14 cm. xviii + 432 pp + b/w photo plates.

Very good condition, top edge of page block bumped at the head of the spine (see photo). Previous owner's stamp inside the front cover, otherwise appears unread (no creases to the spine).