Titre
Missionary travels and researches in South Africa: incl. a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa
Auteur
Livingstone, David
Langue
anglais
Éditeur
John Murray, London, 1857, first edition
Prix
€ 650,00(Excl. toute livraison)
Détails
8vo, contemporary calf school prize binding with marbled endpapers and edges, gilt spine with red morocco label to spine, gilt motif of Harrow School to upper board.
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Livingstone’s famous first South African expedition during which "he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before. He first discovered the Zambesi River at Secheke and followed it northwards, eventually reaching the west coast of Africa at Luanda, Angola, and the east coast at Quelimane, Mozambique. In 1855 he discovered the great falls of the Zambesi and named them the Victoria Falls. He explored the Zambesi, Shire and Ruyuma rivers and found the salt lake Chilwa and Lake Nyasa. During his travels Livingstone was appalled at what he saw of the terrible effects of the slave trade (mainly carried on by Arabs) on African life. He followed the principles of Wilberforce and became a protagonist in the fight to abolish slavery. 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."
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