How I Found Livingstone

Sir Stanleys account of his trek through east Africa in the late 1860s has the potential to be both historically relevant and a real-life adventure story. He accurately records the travels over more than a year and notes both successes and failures, weather, terrain, peoples met, battles fought, and all sorts of administration problems a troop lead can encounter. Having siad that, this is not an illustrated book (despite the words in the title). I dont know if the printed copy contains drawings, photos, maps etc. but none of that shows up in the Kindle version and the story suffers greatly for that. In trying to locate some of the places identified in the book with any of the online mapping tools was practically impossible as place names have been significantly changed in the intervening 140+ years. This seriously degrades the book and cost 2 stars to the rating.

Excellent,exciting,and touching. History at its best by the participants. I only wish there had been an update included to know what eventually happened

If you like reading original historical source material, then you will like this book. One gets the feeling of what it was like in a much different time in East Africa during early European contact with the interior.

Quite interesting look back in time to the adventures in Central Africa. This book is obviously a compilation of his daily journal. It was shocking how blase Stanley was to the death, starvation, lawlessness and hardships endured during his search for Livingstone. Stanley treatment and attitude toward the savages is appalling but not unusual for the times. Very interesting read.

I began reading this book from a program on tv that was an expedition that followed the path of Stanleys account from this book. It was so interesting that I wanted to see why this book led them to do this dangerous expedition. I loved it. The book uses the language of the day and is very very well written.

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.)

Very interesting true life storey of great historical importance. A must for history buffs. This detailled account of the story behind Dr Livingstone, I presume as spoken by Stanley brings to life the journeys taken by reporters of yesteryear.

not a bad read, and you cant beat the free price.........haha

Should view the glossary first, as so many words and terms are foreign. Or made-up. Otherwise, not enough about the natives and their culture as I had anticipated. Too much bragging and pandering, but still an interesting piece of history.

My favorite nonfiction read of 2013. It is indelibly imprinted on my mind. First person narrative of firsthand accounts from the British Colonial Period are absolutely fascinating.