How I Found Livingstone

How can one complain about a work so classic that all these years later it is still part of the public lexicon? And I can hardly complain about the price, can I ? It is a great budget stretcher for those of us who like Kindle reading.

A very interesting time and place for an adventure. Insightful into the history and relationships and culture of those times. It was quite dangerous and extremely hard work to go where they went. Worth the read.

The author relates seemingly hundreds of unpronounceable names of tribes and locations and rivers over and over on every page. I got through to where he found Livingstone, but then I had to give up.

This first hand account is the definitive work of how Stanley found Livingstone as well as conditions surrounding the exploration of eastern Africa in the 19th century.

This is Mr Stanleys accurate account of his travails in Africa, and it is never what you think. The bugs, the people, the muck, not the animals. Also an insight into the medical ignorance of the day. Learn the real value of cloth in Dotis. Yes folks, money in Africa was carried in bales....cloth. Dr Livingston really really could have used google earth and penicillin, but alas....

The story is awash with mind-numbing details using un-explained and un-familiar names/terms which sometimes leaves ones head spinning. I stuck with it because of the actual history it relates.