How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa

Read all my reviews on [URL not allowed] Finished after 8 years! How does one spend 8 years reading a book, I hear you think. Well, of course I was not actively reading it for the last 8 years. I am however, very bad in DNFing a book, so some will stay inactive on my shelves for y......more

Historically interesting, as it's a primary source. Though, having read "King Leopold's Ghost," the part this book and its author played in inciting a tragedy can't be overlooked. Nor can Stanley's obvious tendency to exaggerate and lie, which comes through pretty clearly on the page. The book can ba......more

I went in thinking this was going to be more about Livingstone, because I had a recommendation that Stanley wrote an excellent 2 volume biography of him. I selected the wrong book! This is alllllll about Stanley’s travels through Africa. The last 1/3 is about his time with Livingston. I’ll admit I h......more

I find it strange when people ask me, was Livingstone a Christian? It was his tomb at westminster abbey, with the words engraved 'other sheep I have, and they must come also' that gave the mission we belong to founder the vision to place mission stations from the coast to lake chad, just after recov......more

This is a very hard book for me to review. The story/history of the subject is very interesting, but I did not take to the writing style of the book at all. It was very hard to get through, and actually, I did not get through the whole thing. The book is 690 pages. I managed to trudge through 420 pa......more