Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire

(Part of the Profiles in History Series)

by Clare Pettitt

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When the American reporter Henry Morton Stanley stepped out of the jungle in 1871 and doffed his pith helmet to the Scottish missionary-explorer Dr. David Livingstone, his greeting was to take on mythological proportions. But do any of us really know what his words meant at the time--and what they have come to mean since?

Far from meeting in a remote thicket in "Darkest Africa," Stanley met Livingstone in the middle of a thriving Muslim...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674024877

ISBN13:9780674024878

Release Date:July 2007

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.98 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.4"

Related Subjects

Africa England Europe Expeditions & Discoveries History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Scotland World

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Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire

(Part of the Profiles in History Series)

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