David Livingstone
by C. Silvester Horne
Publisher: Macmillan and co. 1916
Number of pages: 265
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The author has aimed not so much at telling the story as at allowing the story to tell itself. It may be added that, in the belief of the writer, Livingstone is greatest, not as a scientist, nor an explorer, but as a man and a missionary.
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