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Editore: Hardpress Publishing, 2013
ISBN 10: 1313678325ISBN 13: 9781313678322
Da: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Editore: Hardpress Publishing, 2013
ISBN 10: 1313678325ISBN 13: 9781313678322
Da: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Regno Unito
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Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
Editore: Hardpress Publishing, 2013
ISBN 10: 1313678325ISBN 13: 9781313678322
Da: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Regno Unito
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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Editore: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1875
Da: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 541+[4 ad] pages with frontispiece portrait, 2 maps (including folding pocket map), 21 full page and 25 smaller illustrations. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt pictorial on cover and spine with blind stamped rule to cover edges, edges beveled. Edited by Horace Waller. First published in London by John Murray in 1874. First American edition. David Livingstone was a British Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in central Africa. He was the first European to see Mosi-oa-Tunya (Victoria Falls), to which he gave the English name in honor of his monarch, Queen Victoria. He is the subject of the meeting with H. M. Stanley, which gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr Livingstone, I presume? "Perhaps one of the most popular national heroes of the late-nineteenth century in Victorian Britain, Livingstone had a mythic status, which operated on a number of interconnected levels: that of Protestant missionary martyr, that of working-class "rags to riches" inspirational story, that of scientific investigator and explorer, that of imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader and advocate of commercial empire. His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the obsession with discovering the sources of the Nile River that formed the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of the African continent. At the same time his missionary travels, "disappearance" and death in Africa, and subsequent glorification as posthumous national hero in 1874 led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa." Condition: Shelf wear, head and heal of spine rubbed, frayed and chipped, slight rubbing along front hinge, small sticker removed from pack pocket, some closed tears to page edges else about very good.
Editore: London: John Murray, 1874., 1874
Da: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Prima edizione
2 Volumes. 8vo. xvi, 360, 6(ads); vii, [1], 346 + 20(ads). 2 folding partly coloured maps, 21 plates (incl. 2 frontis.), & 24 text illus. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (spines faded, extremities bit frayed, inner hinges strengthened, light foxing to outer leaves in Vol. I). First Edition. The journals contain a detailed description of Livingstone's last expedition which began in Zanzibar in 1866 and ended with his death on the south shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1873. "The two main objects of the expedition were the suppression of slavery by means of civilizing influences, and the ascertainment of the watershed in the region between Nyasa and Tanganyika. At first Livingstone thought the Nile problem had been solved by Speke, Baker and Burton, but the idea grew on upon him that the Nile sources must be sought farther south, and his last journey became in the end a forlorn hope in search of the 'fountains' of Herodotus." (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.) Hosken p. 126. Mendelssohn III 135.