David Livingstone: Man of Prayer and Action

Horne, C Silvester

ISBN 10: 1433222485 ISBN 13: 9781433222481

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2013

Synopsis

Written just forty years after David Livingstone's death, this admiring account of the famous missionary's life and work takes us deep into the dark continent of nineteenth-century Africa, where he labored to bring Christianity, commerce, and civilization. A national hero in Victorian Britain, Livingstone earned fame as an explorer and scientific investigator, an antislavery crusader, and imperial reformer, as well as in the role of a Protestant missionary and martyr who eventually died in Africa of malaria.In those forty years great and astounding changes have been witnessed in the Continent which is associated with his fame....But nothing that has happened since has diminished by a single laurel the wreath he won, and will wear for ever....Livingstone is greatest, not as a scientist, nor an explorer, but as a man and a missionary. (from the book)

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About the Author

Charles Silvester Horne (1865-1914) studied theology at Mansfield College, Oxford, became a well-known Congregationalist minister, and additionally served as a member of the British parliament for Ipswich, England.

Ralph Cosham (1936-2014), a.k.a. Geoffrey Howard, was a British journalist who changed careers to become a narrator and screen and stage actor. He performed in more than one hundred professional theatrical roles, and several of his narrations were named "Audio Best of the Year" by Publishers Weekly. In 2013 he won the coveted Audie Award for his narration of Louise Penny's The Beautiful Mystery.

Review

With every decade his fame greatens. ... in the belief of the writer, Livingstone is greatest, not as a scientist, nor an explorer, but as a man and a missionary. (quoted from the book) --C. Silvester Horne

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1433222485
• ISBN 13: 9781433222481
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English