How I Found Livingstone

Difficult read due to archaic language and geography. This could be a worthwhile project to update the language and geography to modern usage. Many of the allusions used are not available in either Kindle dictionary. Only a few of the place names are recognizable. The telling of what was probably a pretty epic trek is swallowed up by a rather wordy narrative. Stanley was a newspaperman whose style of prose did not convert well to the novel. Many of the individual events related are fascinating, it is the flow of events that is bogged down in some of the endless swamps of his telling.

My favorite nonfiction read of 2013. It is indelibly imprinted on my mind. First person narrative of firsthand accounts from the British Colonial Period are absolutely fascinating.

No problems. Arrived as described and on time.

Not as good as I expected but still an interesting.

Dr. Stanley went through a thousand villages to get to Livingstone and wrote a chapter on each one. At the time the book was written cruelty was the norm and it hurt to read it. It was interesting to read the thoughts of that day however.

The story is awash with mind-numbing details using un-explained and un-familiar names/terms which sometimes leaves ones head spinning. I stuck with it because of the actual history it relates.

African history without the politcally correct filter. Written in a 19th century style that tells of the trials of safari in early Africa

If you like reading original historical source material, then you will like this book. One gets the feeling of what it was like in a much different time in East Africa during early European contact with the interior.

This book was written by and about one of the worlds greatest explorers and his adventures in Africa. If you are interested in similar travels through Africa, then I suggest Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa by Arthur Neuman or Bell of Africa by W.D.M. Bell. How I found Livingstone is okay but it pales in comparison to those other two books. (Just like every other book of non-fiction.)

The author relates seemingly hundreds of unpronounceable names of tribes and locations and rivers over and over on every page. I got through to where he found Livingstone, but then I had to give up.