Livingstone David - Livingstone

LIVINGSTONE

T IM J EAL is also the biographer of Henry Morton Stanley (National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and Sunday Times Biography of the Year 2007), and Robert Baden-Powell, which (like Livingstone) was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and the Washington Post. In 2011 his Explorers of the Nile was a New York Times Editor's Choice and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

Well researched and written, both analytical and intuitive An excellent biography.Richard West Sunday Times

Jeal's rich telling of this tale seems certain to be the standard biography of both man and myth; it is hard to imagine why anyone need write the story again.Smithsonian

Tim Jeal's book draws on a far wider range of published and manuscript material than was available to earlier biographers; it is detailed, painstaking, and mostly detached and should become a standard work.

Times Literary Supplement

A big impressive attempt to find the man behind the icon It is exciting, complex, sometimes appalling, but very convincing.

Edmund Fuller Wall Street Journal

Mr Jeal has succeeded in making Livingstone a more estimable man than ever emerged from the myth In cutting one hero down to size, he builds up another a hero of Conradian stamp and stature.

Paul Scott (Booker prize winner)

An unhaloed portrait of a very great man Jeal's biography is first rate, informative, judicious, scholarly.Alden Whitman New York Times

Brilliant Without detracting from Livingstone's incredible achievements, Mr Jeal describes too his faults and failings in such a way that the myth is destroyed but the man himself is vividly revealed.

Graham Lord Sunday Express

A major biography of both the man and the legend he ill-fitted An achievement of historical insight and tempered judgment it should become the standard biography for a long time to come. Virginia Kirkus

There truly has been nothing as riveting on the subject as this book by Tim Jeal. In this hypnotic account of his career, Mr Jeal is particularly good in his description of the clash of cultures At last we have the real truth about Dr Livingstone. Dillibe Onyeama Books & Bookmen

Writers under thirty so seldom tackle a major work of historical study that it would tax the memory of the oldest observer to think of a parallel case to Jeal's spectacular feat of precocity'Newsday

A biography the thoroughness of which comes right up to present day high academic standards.C.P. Snow Financial Times

Neither advocate nor debunker, using sources made available in the last decade, Jeal has written a fascinating story of the essential man one that suggests that celebrity is only one measure, and often a distorting one.

Robert Kirsch Los Angeles Times

Jeal is a writer to watch and this is a full-scale portrait, superbly and solidly readable.John Braine Daily Express

The balance Jeal provides is long overdue. He does what biography should do: brings to life a vivid character without perpetuating the myths that obscure reality.Daniel Webster Philadelphia Inquirer

A truly shattering exposure of the hagiographical picture of Livingstone as the great African missionary which Victorian piety left to us.

Christopher Hollis Tablet

A superb biography, not to be missed either by armchair explorers or students of human nature. Jeal reveals the famed missionary and explorer as he really was.Cleveland Plain Dealer

Tim Jeal brings out Livingstone's deep absorption with Africa and with Africans as people.Peter Macdonald Scotsman

Likely to be a standard work. David Paton Church Times

This brilliant and original biography.

Peter Cadogan Times Educational Supplement

A thrilling and in the end moving work The Livingstone who emerges is a man of terrifying dimensions.Irish Press

It is a leading merit of Tim Jeal's biography, that while fudging none of his faults, he nevertheless leaves us in no doubt of his greatness.

C.P. Ravilious Tribune

Brilliantly done; it will be the standard life.Michael Hennell Churchman

The central role that Livingstone played in the process of colonization is brought out for the first time in this excellent new biography by Tim Jeal.

Philip Whitehead Listener

Mr Jeal has done well with his provocative biography: Livingstone is less of a saint, but more of a man.Richard Hall Observer

This revised edition published 2013

First published in the United States as a Yale Nota Bene book in 2001.

Originally published by William Heinemann Ltd, 1973.

Published by Futura Publications 1975; Penguin Books 1985; Pimlico Press in 1993, 1994 and 1996.

Copyright 1973, 1985 and 2013 by Tim Jeal.

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Jeal, Tim.

Livingstone / Tim Jeal.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-300-19100-4 (cloth: alk. paper)

1. Livingstone, David, 18131873. 2. ExplorersGreat BritainBiography. 3. Africa, Sub-SaharanDiscovery and exploration. I. Title.

DT1110.L58J43 2013

916.70423dc23

2012042787

ISBN 0-300-09102-8 (pbk)

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

To the memory of my parents

Contents

Illustrations

Line Illustrations

Livingstone's reception at Shinte's

Loanda, from a sketch by Captain Henry Need

Boat Capsized by a Hippopotamus Robbed of her Young

A View of Zanzibar

Slaves abandoned

The massacre at Nyangwe

Dr Livingstone, I presume?

The main stream came up to Susi's mouth

The last entries in Livingstone's Journal

Line illustrations nos 1, 2, and 3 are reproduced from D. Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (London, 1857); nos 4 and 7 from H.M. Stanley, How I Found Livingstone (London 1872); and nos 5, 6, 8 and 9 from H. Waller (ed.), The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa (London, 1874).

Maps

Livingstone's journeys, May 18411852

Livingstone's trans-continental journey, November 18531856

Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition, 18581863

Livingstone's last journeys

Central African watershed as it is

5b Watershed as Livingstone believed it to be

Preface