Livingstone (Yale Nota Bene) - Softcover

Tim Jeal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300091028 ISBN 13: 9780300091021

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2001

Synopsis

David Livingstone (1813-1873) has been revered as one of the world's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo. Tim Jeal's masterful biography reveals the man behind the myth, one capable of ruthless cruelty as well as self-sacrifice and bravery, one dogged all his life by failure as well as success. Served as the basis for documentaries about Livingstone on the Discovery Channel and on BBC TV. Selected as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post Book Review.

About this title

Review:

"A rich and readable book." -- Jan Morris, Spectator

"An unhaloed portrait of a very great man ... First rate, absorbing, informative, judicious." -- New York Times

"This superb new biography differs from all previous ones in its political and historical sophistication... -- Fawn M. Brodie, New York Times Book Review

"Well researched and written, both analytical and intuitive ... an excellent biography." -- Richard West, Sunday Times

'beautifully written...this splendid volume gives a masterly insight into his life and works' -- John Oates, The Times, 20 October 2001

About the Author:

Tim Jeal is a highly acclaimed biographer and novelist, and author of Baden-Powell: Founder of the Boy Scouts (ISBN 0 300 09103 6, pb ), also published by Yale University Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0300091028
• ISBN 13: 9780300091021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448