How I Found Livingstone

Just a note: This IS a very nice compact edition. Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.8 x 1.6 inches. Dont worry about the font size, as it is large enough to read easily. The pictures are quite well done, including engravings from Stanleys original edition and color prints and maps. The margins are one-half inch, so if you are one to write notes, this will be a little cramped for you. This is a straight-forward tale that reads like the adventure story it is.

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....

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.

good

This first hand account is the definitive work of how Stanley found Livingstone as well as conditions surrounding the exploration of eastern Africa in the 19th century.

Absolutely excellent. The writing is quite excellent and the story the same. It is an adventure story worth reading

I had heard the famous line when Stanley met Livingstone in Africa after a long search: Doctor Livingstone, I presume? This is the true story of Stanleys search, as told by him. It was an amazing adventure - though one most of us would prefer to experience vicariously. Stanley was working for a New York newspaper when his boss told him to look for the explorer Dr. Livingstone, who had not been heard from in years and was variously thought to be dead, in danger, or avoiding contact. Stanley simply picked up and went, without hesitation, on the way following instructions to visit and write about the opening of the Suez Canal, the sights of lower and upper Egypt, Warrens excavations in Jerusalem, Persia, and India. His real challenge started when he reached Africa and had to organize an expedition to the interior. Turns out that money was useless in the interior. To pay for food and tribute to local chiefs, he had to purchase and carry large bales of cloth and strings of beads - different types and colors for the various tribes whose territories he expected to pass through. And then he had to hire many native bearers to carry these heavy loads - with extra cloth to pay for their food, too. Of course there were other difficulties - malaria, greedy local chiefs, wars, difficult terrain, floods, ... . Sit in your comfortable chair in your screened home and read all about this most challenging and uncomfortable trip. Happy reading!

If you ever wondered what it was like to go on safari in Africa in the 1870s this is the book. The book is written in the elegant language that has been lost through the ages. Stanley describes his story of finding Dr. Livingston and all of the hardships that exploring darkest Africa which at the time was still like it was at the beginning of man. If you like adventure stories you will love this book.

Though no longer the sensational best-seller it was at the time it was published, the book remains well-worth reading. I was particularly impressed by the authors determination and ability to overcome the most formidable obstacles. As Stanley himself put it, “where the civilized white is found, a difficulty must vanish. What a contrast with the present, when almost every time the armed forces of Western nations try to do something in the so-called Third World they are defeated and expelled

You hear about this in school, but you dont learn a whole lot about Livingston and Stanley. The book puts a whole different light on things, and you not only learn about the finding but all the details of getting there which is really most of the story. This is a story of not just a wander through the jungle but about how they had to overcome difficulties almost insurmountable. I am glad to have found this book for kindle.