Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
including a Sketch of Sixteen Years’ Residence in the Interior of Africa

The famous Victorian missionary and explorer David Livingstone describes his travels in southern Africa in this 1857 book.

David Livingstone (Author)

9781108010016, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 2010

788 pages, 43 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 4 cm, 0.9 kg

This absorbing narrative by the world famous explorer and Christian missionary, David Livingstone, (1813–1873) was first published in 1857 after the President of the Royal Geographical Society asked Livingstone to give a series of public lectures on his travels in Africa. The book was a great success, but Livingstone reportedly said 'I think I would rather cross the African continent again than undertake to write another book'. Livingstone's book describes in careful detail his travels and work in parts of southern and central Africa previously unknown to Europeans. It distils the experiences and observations of sixteen years during which Livingstone bravely faced the challenges of climate, terrain and tropical disease, travelling in a small group and adopting a non-confrontational approach to the local populations. The book makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in Africa's indigenous peoples, their customs and languages, animal and plant life, geology, and mineralogy.

Introduction
1. Residence at Kuruman, Lepelole, and Kolobeng
2. The Boers
3. Crossing the desert
4. Second and third journeys from Kolobeng
5. Last journey from Cape Town
6. Kuruman
7. Diseases of animals
8. Missionary labours
9. Linyanti
10. African fever
11. Linyanti to Sesheke
12. Ascent of the Leeambye
13. Linyanti
14. Ascent of the Leeambye continued
15. Ascent of the Leeba
16. Land journey to Shinte's town
17. The Lonaje
18. The Kasai
19. Through Bashinje territory to Cassange
20. The Makololo at Loanda
21. Residence at Golungo Alto
22. Tala Mungongo
23. Detour southward
24. The Lotembwa
25. Naliele
26. Descent of the Leeambye
27. Natural history and geology
28. Notices of the elephant
29. Crossing the Loangwa
30. Animals
31. Notices of Tete and its vicinity
32. Descent of the Zambesi
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Church history [HRCC2]