1857 AFRICA 1ed David Livingstone Missionary Travels Illustrated MAP Angola RARE

1857 AFRICA 1^ed David Livingstone Missionary Travels Illustrated MAP Angola RARE

“If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.”

― David Livingstone

A rare 1857 edition of David Livingstone’s “Missionary Travels”. In this book, Livingstone describes his travel and work as a missionary to the indigenous people in Central and South Africa. Through the mid-19th-century, South Africa was completely unknown to Europeans, thus Livingstone’s mission brought light to more than just spreading the gospel. The work deals with customs, languages, animal and plant biology, geology, topography, and mineralogy in Africa.

According to PMM,

“The geographical results of his journeys were of supreme importance and made it possible to fill in great stretches of the maps of Central Africa which hitherto had been blank.” (Printing and Mind of Man 341)

Livingstone discovered the Zambesi River and Victoria Falls, which he named. He also explored parts of Angola and Mozambique and met with and observed the Hottentot. He was also able to discover some of the most devastating instances of slave trade which propelled his abolitionist ideals.

Item number: #26991

Price: $950

LIVINGSTONE, David

Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa

London: Murray, 1857. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • ix, [1], 687, [1]
  • 45 full-page engravings, plus 2 folding maps
• References: Czech 97; PMM 341; Abbey Travel 347; Garrison & Morton 5269
  • Czech: “Perhaps the most famous of all African exploration books, this recounts Dr. Livingstone’s travels through South Africa, with the discovery of Lake Ngami, while accompanied by his wife and William Cotton Oswell. Oswell and the author continued their journey, discovering the Zambesi River, and, eventually, the Victoria Falls”
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.75in X 6in (22cm x 15cm)

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