Volume 21, Number 2 · February 21, 1974
Mission Impossible
By Neal Ascherson
Livingstone
by Tim Jeal
Putnam, 427 pp., $10.00
The upper Clyde has two gorges. In one of them, profit-sharing industrialism was born, at the mills which Robert Owen built at New Lanark. In the other, or rather in a stone house on its lip, missionary exploration found its father. David Livingstone, dead 101 years ago on his knees in Chitambo's village somewhere to the south-southeast of Lake Bangweolo, was born here.
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