1859 1st ed AFRICA David Livingstone Missionary Travel Color Illustrated Zambezi



“If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.”

– David Livingstone



A rare first edition of David Livingstone’s “Missionary Travels.” In this book Livingstone describes his travel and work as a missionary to the indigenous people in Central and South Africa. Through the mid-19th-century, South Africa was completely unknown to Europeans, so Livingstone’s mission brought light to more than just spreading the gospel. The work deals with customs, languages, animal and plant biology, geology, topography, and mineralogy. “The geographical results of his journeys were of supreme importance and made it possible to fill in great stretches of the maps of Central Africa which hitherto had been blank” (PMM 341).



Livingstone discovered the Zambesi River and Victoria Falls (which he named), parts of Angola, and Mozambique; met with and observed the Hottentot. He was also able to discover some of the most devastating instances of slave trade, which propelled his abolitionist ideals. This 1859 edition features full-page color engravings as well as in-text illustrations of the discoveries and encounters of Livingstone’s excursions.



Item number: #7750

Price: $399



LIVINGSTONE, David



Livingstone's travels and researches in South Africa including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the west coast, thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean.



Philadelphia, J.W. Bradley, 1859.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[xiv], 442, [10]

Numerous illustrated engravings; many full-page color

References: PMM 341

Language: English

Binding: Cloth; tight and secure

Size: ~7.5in X 5.5in (18.5cm x 13.5cm)



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