April 12, 2024
1859 - Livingston's Travels and Researches in South Africa - David Livingston
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LIVINGSTON ’STRAVELS AND RESEARCHESIN SOUTH AFRICAINCLUDINGA SKETCH OF SIXTEEN YEARS RESIDENCE IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICAAND A JOURNEY FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO LOANDAON THE WEST COAST , THENCE ACROSS THE CONTINENT,DOWN THE RIVER ZAMESI, TO THEEASTERN OCEAN.FROM THE PERSONAL NARRATIVEOFDAVID LIVINGSTON, LL.D., D.C.L.TO WHICH IS ADDEDA HISTORICAL SKETCH OF DISCOVERIES IN AFRICAILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGSPHILADELPHIAJ. W. BRADLEY1859Being offered at auction is a scarce 1859 edition of David Livingston’s “Travels and researches in South Africa. A fascinating and insightful work of Victorian exploration into the “Dark Continent”, with accounts of tribes, culture, geographical descriptions, adventures, trials and brave daring. A detailed work drawn from Livingston’s diaries. To the Travels and Researches is added “A Historical sketch of discoveries in Africa. The book is nicely illustrated with b/w engravings.One period reviewer writes of this volume;This is a work of thrilling adventures and hair-breadth escapes among savage beasts and more savage men. Dr. Livingston was alone, and unaided by any white man, traveling with African attendants, among different tribes and nations, all strange to him, and many of them hostile, and altogether forming the most astonishing book of travels. . . a most readable book. . .The Daily Democrate,
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