Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa [Hardcover]

David Livingstone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1972

Subjects: Missions -- South Africa Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 732 pages
• Publisher: Ayer Co Pub (June 1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836969189
• ISBN-13: 978-0836969184
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,186,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A truly great book on African Travel by a Christian Pioneer, June 12, 2010

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Prolific Reader ""M"" - See all my reviews

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone 1857 (32 chapters) is his first work about his travels in Africa as a missionary. the introduction is about Livingstone ancestry and life and then his ministry at Kuruman under Moffat followed by his own mission stations and incidents connected with his life.

The book is very detailed in the places he stayed at what he ate, incidents, the people his met, word meaning, crossing of river, hut and canoe designs and the general exploration of the area with comments and documentation on animals,. insects, fauna, flowers, tress, foods, the geology, culture, tribes of those whom he met. The animals attacks, hunting, fellow travellers, etiquette, interesting items about 3 different types of ants, and his first major journey from Cape Town to Kuruman to the West Coast and then traversing to the East Coast - a first for a European which took 4 years.

I have the 1899 edition with notes by fredrick Stanley Arnot - also an explorer missionary (431 pages plus appendixes plus index) which give some very interesting additional insights on word meanings, future discoveries since Livingstone's and what happened to some of the people and tribes who he met - 30-40 years on from Livingston emeeting them.

The book is generous in its pictures, some of which came from Livingstone's day, but with the addition of a good number of photos. Livingstone describes his work, ministry as a missionary (though not in that much detail) and focuses on his exploration as a map for those who would follow in his footsteps - what trades well, what could be grown, how long the distance was, temperature, elevation, weather, seasons, problems, fevers, tstse fly etc.

A truly great book on African Travel by a Christian Pioneer - for modern missions see How to Plan, Prepare and Successfully Complete Your Short-Term Mission - For Volunteers, Churches, Independent STM Teams and Mission Organisations

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy this book, January 19, 2011

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GENE MASSEY (Hollywood, California) - See all my reviews

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This is a cheap, poorly constructed book that is certainly not worth the money. The CONTENT is not bad - it is the cheap quality of the book, like it was made on a copy machine. You also cannot read the very pale type. I would try to get my money back but for ten bucks it's not worth the effort.