Volume 52, Number 11 · June 23, 2005
The Great Victorian Abroad
By David Gilmour
David Livingstone: Mission and Empire
by Andrew Ross
Hambledon, 274 pp., $29.95
In the days when British schools taught their pupils about kings and queens and Great Men, every child knew who David Livingstone was. His status may have been a little nebulous—and his achievements even cloudier—but we were taught to acknowledge that he had been a great hero, a missionary and explorer, a man so loved by Africans that his faithful black servants had carried his corpse hundreds of miles from the heart of the Dark Continent to the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar.
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