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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 46 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Frederick Davidson. |
| Summary |
Born in an overcrowded slum in Scotland in 1813, David Livingstone worked twelve-hour days in a cotton factory from age ten to twenty-four. But a pamphlet by Karl Gutzlaff changed his life. Resolved to become a missionary, he applied himself to medicine, self-educating and eventually qualifying as a doctor. In 1841, Livingstone left for Africa as a medical missionary, where he would stay for thirty years. In that time, he became a missionary geographer, ethnologist, chemist, botanist, astronomer, anthropologist, discoverer of Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo, and the first to cross the continent. Africans revered him as a virtual saint, while his academic accomplishments became Western legend. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Livingstone, David, 1813-1873.
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Explorers -- Africa, Southern -- Biography.
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Explorers -- Scotland -- Biography.
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Missionaries, Medical -- Africa, Southern -- Biography.
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Missionaries, Medical -- Scotland -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Case, David.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982491499 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982491493 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10025209 |
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