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DescriptionIn 1841, a twenty-eight-year-old Scottish missionary, David Livingstone, began the first of his exploratory treks into the African veldt. During the course of his lifetime, he covered over 29,000 miles uncovering what lay beyond rivers and mountain ranges where no other white man had ever been. Livingstone was the first European to make a trans-African passage from modern day Angola to Mozambique and he discovered and named numerable lakes, rivers and mountains. His explorations are still considered one of the toughest series of expeditions ever undertaken. He faced an endless series of life-threatening situations, often at the hands of avaricious African chiefs, cheated by slavers traders and attacked by wild animals. He was mauled by a lion, suffered thirst and starvation and was constantly affected by dysentery, bleeding from hemorrhoids, malaria and pneumonia.This biography covers his life but also examines his relationship with his wife and children who were the main casualties of his endless explorations in Africa. It also looks Livingstone's legacy through to the modern day. Author descriptionPaul Bayly is a banker, soldier and sailor. He has had an international career in merchant banking in New Zealand, Australia and England. He has also worked across Southern and Eastern Africa when working for the United Nations in 1991-1992. He is a former officer in the New Zealand Army and has had military deployments to Syria/Lebanon and East Timor and served with the Australian Special Forces. Paul was a project advisor and sailor on the 700 AD Borobudur Ship Expedition, 2003-2004 and the 600BC Phoenician Ship Expedition, 2008-2012. He has also kayaked the Zambesi River. This is his first book. |