<div> <p>Written just forty years after David Livingstone’s death this admiring account of the famous missionary’s life and work takes us deep into the “dark continent” of nineteenth-century Africa where he labored to bring “Christianity commerce and civilization.” A national hero in Victorian Britain Livingstone earned fame as an explorer and scientific investigator an antislavery crusader and imperial reformer as well as in the role of a Protestant missionary and martyr who eventually died in Africa of malaria.</p> <p>“In those forty years great and astounding changes have been witnessed in the Continent which is associated with his fame…But nothing that has happened since has diminished by a single laurel the wreath he won and will wear for ever…Livingstone is greatest not as a scientist nor an explorer but as a man and a missionary.”—from the book</p> </div>