title: The Life and African Exploration of David Livingstone
author: David Dr. Livingstone
description: This reprint of the original 1876 edition contains Livingstone's full report on his travels through Africa, including lithographic illustrations, facsimiles of notebooks, plus diary entries, letters, and more. As a missionary, Livingstone was the first white man to trek across the continent and record details of the inhabitants as well as the unique flora and fauna. More than an explorer, Livingstone battled the export of natives as slaves while trying to spread Christianity. <br />Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: ## THE PERSONAL LIFE
  
  #### OF
  
  # DAVID LIVINGSTONE
  
  LL.D., D.C.L.
  
  #### CHIEFLY FROM HIS UNPUBLISHED  
  JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE  
  IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS FAMILY
  
  #### BY
  
  ### W. GARDEN BLAIKIE, D.D., LLD.
  
  _Author of "Heroes of Israel," etc._
  
    
    
  
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  ## PREFACE.
  
    
  
  The purpose of this work is to make the world better acquainted with the
  character of Livingstone. His discoveries and researches have been given to
  the public in his own books, but his modesty led him to say little in these of
  himself, and those who knew him best feel that little is known of the strength
  of his affections, the depth and purity of his devotion, or the intensity of
  his aspirations as a Christian missionary. The growth of his character and the
  providential shaping of his career are also matters of remarkable interest, of
  which not much has yet been made known.
  
  An attempt has been made in this volume, likewise, to present a more complete
  history of his life than has yet appeared. Many chapt