David Livingstone - Softcover

Wellman, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098979055X ISBN 13: 9780989790550

Publisher: Wild Centuries Press, 2013

Synopsis

David Livingstone, a poor Scot toiling in a cotton mill in 1836, was 30 years later the most revered man in the British Empire. “great dangers and trials, encountered in a good cause, by as honest and courageous a man as ever lived.”Charles Dickens“the best possible subject...” “the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.” Florence NightingaleLivingstone spent himself totally in his calling. In 1874 he was buried in Westminster Abbey among other legends of Britain. In his 32 years in deepest Africa he walked, crawled, climbed, waded, canoed and rode 40,000 miles. He took notes and made maps every inch of the way. He doctored the sick. He opposed the slave trade. He told every African he saw the good news about Jesus Christ.Of all colonial figures he alone remains admired by modern Africa. In 2010 the eight African countries, first proselytized by Livingstone as he explored rivers and trod old native trails, had a population of 170 million. Of the more than 150 million black Africans in that number, a staggering total of more than 100 MILLION are Christians, nearly all Protestant...

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Book Description

Amidst the millions of committed Christians in each generation, a handful rise to special prominence. Learn more about their exciting and inspiring lives in Barbour's "Heroes of the Faith" series.

To go where no missionary had ever been and to witness to peoples beyond the vast Kalahari were the dreams of this missionary and explorer.

From Booklist

Gr. 9^-12. For 32 years Scottish missionary and doctor David Livingstone carried the message of the Christian gospel as he trekked more than 40,000 miles from Cape Town through central Africa. This very detailed biography in the Heroes of the Faith series gives a strong sense of his commitment to his missionary work and his courage as an explorer. Unfortunately, there is some of the usual dark-Africa nonsense about heathen, savage native tribes who speak in dialects. However, Wellman makes clear that, unlike many white colonials, Livingstone was driven not to grab people's land but to save their souls. Many whites hated him because he was outraged by slavery and treated black Africans as equals. He tried to develop trade as the key to spreading the gospel and stopping war. There is some fictionalization, especially about his childhood, but the quotes from his extensive diaries will draw readers to both the humble man of God and the public heroic adventurer. Hazel Rochman

Edition details

• Publisher: Wild Centuries Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 098979055X
• ISBN 13: 9780989790550
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 130