engraved portrait illustration of David Livingstone (1813-1873) circa 1865. He was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa.
Steel engraved portrait illustration of David Livingstone (1813-1873) circa 1865. He was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. From “The Victorian Empire: A Brilliant Epoch in Our National History” by James Taylor, published William Mackenzie London 1897Author:Rev. James Taylor AM., DD., FSALivingstone was perhaps one of the most popular national heroes of the late 19th century in Victorian Britain, Livingstone had a mythic status, which operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags to riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial empire. His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the obsession with discovering the sources of the River Nile that formed the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of the African continent. Livingstone completely lost contact with the outside world for six years and was ill for most of the last four years of his life. Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent to find him by the New York Herald newspaper in 1869, found Livingstone in the town of Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. His meeting on 10 November 1871 gave rise to the popular quotation "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
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