How I Found Livingstone

I thought it was dated but that would be expected but I enjoyed it. I thought the choice of words at times was interesting.

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.

Great shape!

Ive had this eBook a long time. Im still only 40% into it. Its slow reading - more because Im easily preoccupied by fun things such as playing the Pinball Arcade than continuing to read. However, it IS interesting. Sure, its self serving, but what To Me, From Me, Love Me book isnt? Its rather fun to see and read about the Victorian attitudes of the day. NAACP, ACLU and half a dozen other abbreviations would haul your heinie in court and sue you to the moon and back if thats how you acted now.

While the value of this book for historical research is unquestionable, I found the account to be often somewhat tedious to slog through. Stanley must have felt the same way on many a grueling days march. Parts of the book were quite interesting, particularly to me those portions dealing with Stanleys meeting with and association with David Livingstone. I listened to the Audible Audio unabridged version of this book and found the narration to be good. The printed book might be a better choice for the casual reader as one could skim over less interesting portions of the book more easily and any maps contained therein might be of some help. The average armchair adventure reader might prefer to check out Tim Jeals Stanley, a book I highly recommend.

A very interesting time and place for an adventure. Insightful into the history and relationships and culture of those times. It was quite dangerous and extremely hard work to go where they went. Worth the read.

This is Mr Stanleys accurate account of his travails in Africa, and it is never what you think. The bugs, the people, the muck, not the animals. Also an insight into the medical ignorance of the day. Learn the real value of cloth in Dotis. Yes folks, money in Africa was carried in bales....cloth. Dr Livingston really really could have used google earth and penicillin, but alas....

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.

Not as good as I expected but still an interesting.

This is Henry Stanleys first hand account of the expedition to find Dr. David Livingstone who went missing in Africa. The book is both an account of his search and a travelogue of Africa during the Victorian period.