Livingstone is perhaps the best-known missionary of them all. His attempts to find the source of the Nile and his famous meeting with Henry Morton Stanley have become the stuff of legend. The truth behind the legend, however, is even more compelling. Drawing extensively from Livingstone's personal notes and letters, Rob Mackenzie unfolds the intensely human story of a man with a vision - to set souls free from slavery, both physically and spiritually, and to open up Africa to Christianity and lawful commerce Livingstone ...
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Livingstone is perhaps the best-known missionary of them all. His attempts to find the source of the Nile and his famous meeting with Henry Morton Stanley have become the stuff of legend. The truth behind the legend, however, is even more compelling. Drawing extensively from Livingstone's personal notes and letters, Rob Mackenzie unfolds the intensely human story of a man with a vision - to set souls free from slavery, both physically and spiritually, and to open up Africa to Christianity and lawful commerce Livingstone has come to be regarded as a figure purely based on a few events, lost in legend, yet his tomb inscription reads 'Brought by faithful hands over land and sea here rests David Livingstone - missionary, traveller, philanthropist... for 30 years his life was spent in an unwearied effort to evangelise the native races, to explore the undiscovered secrets, to abolish the desolating slave trade of Central Africa where with his last words he wrote all I can add in my solitude, is, may heaven's rich blessing come down on every one, American, English, or Turk, who will help to heal this open sore of the world. An amazing story awaits you on the first page.
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Very Good. 286/2500, signed by author. Leather bound, minor wear to extremities. X at top of first page. Gentle marks and foxing to page edges. Text all clear. Appears unread. 389 p. Ill.
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Fair. No Jacket. Signed by Author(s)424 pages (complete). Numbered (in hand) 2306 of 2500 limited edition. Signed by Mackenzie on the page (reverse frontispage). Special edition published to mark the 150th anniversary of exploration and discovery (of central Africa one assumes). Bound in bonded leather. This is much cracked and worn. The spine has been squashed during storage but is still supple and resolute. The covers are worn about all edges, there is scuffing and some scratching. However, the cover maintains a defiant character. The papertrims have some mild handling and storage markings. The contents are firm and sure. The pages are clean, bright, eager, clear and welcoming. fk.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Signed by author. 2nd edition. Limited edition, no 1241/2500. The boards are a little rubbed. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*22/11/2022. [Ak]
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Very Good. No Jacket. Signed by Author(s)Covered in full bonded leather this is a special limited commemorative edition and it is signed by the author. It is numbered 2227 of 2500. This is special edition is also the eighth edition of the original 1993 edition. This special edition was published to mark the 150th anniversary of Livingstone's "exploration and discovery". The tan leather cover is worn about the extremities. There is wearing to the top edge of the front cover and spine edges. The back cover has some surface impression marks and to the top left hand corner edge. The corners have some shelving depressions. Nonetheless the leather is soft to the touch and is complete. The gold print stamping is clear, bold and unmarked. The top paper trim edge and side trim edge have some marking from handling. Inside, the condition is near fine throughout. The pages are clear, bright, clean, complete and fresh. fk.