Livingstone

Informationen zum Autor Tim Jeal 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. Klappentext David Livingstone is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, first European to cross Africa, and first to find Victoria Falls and source of the Congo River. In this edition, the author provides the fully rounded portrait of this c Zusammenfassung An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography published to mark the bicentenary of the great explorer

Product details

• Authors: Tim Jeal, Jeal Tim
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2013
• EAN: 9780300191004
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19100-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 217 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Geographische Entdeckungen und Erforschungen, Biography: historical, political & military, Subsahara-Afrika, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, Geographical discovery & exploration, Geographical discovery and exploration, Biography: adventurers and explorers, Sub-Saharan Africa