Missionary travels and researches in South Africa: including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast; thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean.
by Livingstone, David
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858. Fair. 8vo (24 cm); xxiv, 755 pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait, wood engraved plates and 3 folding maps and plans. Original blind-stamped cloth, brittle and torn away from lower half of spine. Rubbed at corners and along extremities. Foxing on some plates. See Printing and the Mind of Man, 341 (London, 1857 edition).
David Livingstone (1813-73) undertook three great journeys through Africa, exploring vast regions unknown to Europeans. Appalled at the terrible effects of the slave trade on African life, he became a fierce abolitionist. His "Missionary Travels" was first published in London, 1857, and in New York and Philadelphia the following year.
David Livingstone (1813-73) undertook three great journeys through Africa, exploring vast regions unknown to Europeans. Appalled at the terrible effects of the slave trade on African life, he became a fierce abolitionist. His "Missionary Travels" was first published in London, 1857, and in New York and Philadelphia the following year.
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- Bookseller
- Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5138
- Title
- Missionary travels and researches in South Africa:
- Author
- Livingstone, David
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1858
- Keywords
- Livingstone Stanley Africa South Exploration Travel Loana Zambesi Speke Slavery Abolition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Journeys and Destinations;
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