How I Found Livingstone

This is a really interesting book worthy of your reading, and very informative. I really like reading about missionaries from early times in history and what all they went through on little or nothing.

This book was written by and about one of the worlds greatest explorers and his adventures in Africa. If you are interested in similar travels through Africa, then I suggest Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa by Arthur Neuman or Bell of Africa by W.D.M. Bell. How I found Livingstone is okay but it pales in comparison to those other two books. (Just like every other book of non-fiction.)

Slightly tedious read, but I enjoyed it. Im a bit of a geek and found doing satellite maps & research on the other expeditions of both men to be fascinating.

THIS IS THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF DR. LIVINGSTONS BIRTHDAY . HE WENT TO AFRICA AS A MISSIONARY AND EXPLORER AND DISAPPEARED FOR 6 YEARS. MANY THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD.MR. STANLEY WAS SENT TO FIND HIM, DEAD OR ALIVE. STANLEY;S JOURNALS TELLS OF HIS ADVENTURE INTO CENTRAL AFRICA LOOKING FOR DR. LIVINGSTON. GOOD READ. GIVES A GOOD INSITE INTO AFRICA IN THE 1800`s

This is an essential read for any scholar of African history. For sure this work will now be seen as politically incorrect in places but it reflects the issues of the Age. Travel with Stanley from the coastal swamps to the great lake Tanganyika and witness his immortal meeting with Livingstone. The descriptions of the people, animals and environment are outstanding.

Ive had this eBook a long time. Im still only 40% into it. Its slow reading - more because Im easily preoccupied by fun things such as playing the Pinball Arcade than continuing to read. However, it IS interesting. Sure, its self serving, but what To Me, From Me, Love Me book isnt? Its rather fun to see and read about the Victorian attitudes of the day. NAACP, ACLU and half a dozen other abbreviations would haul your heinie in court and sue you to the moon and back if thats how you acted now.

Given the era in which it was written, the language is a bit overblown but not intolerably so. However, the formatting is a continual challenge. The tale is interesting but be prepared to adjust the font size every couple of chapters.

I have found this book extremely interesting from the point of view of total lack of knowledge of what actually went on in Africa at that time and the very difficult conditions encountered by those who chose to venture into such an inhospitable continent. As if the conditions were not enough to contend with there were also the natives with their requirements in order to pass through their land. Sounds a bit like how things are today!!! Having said that I found it written in the very much journalistic form rather than as a novel. I now note this was the purpose of the writing in general. All in all a very good and enlightening read.

Doctor Livingston, I presume? The account of Stanleys journey into Central Africa is a good read - and you get insights into the journey and in part the role that Arabs played in the economy and social fabric of Eastern Africa, in particular Zanzibar. A good read.

For someone who has an Africa upbringing, a map of his travels would have been helpful , very few of the tribes or chiefs were necessary to the story. It is interesting that the Arabs dominated so many of the tribes near the east coast of Africa. Yet the British and Americans have all taken the blame.