David Livingstone in inglese

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David Livingstone David Livingstone David Livingstone (March 19, 1813 - May 1, 1873) was a Scottish missionary and explorer of the Victorian periodo, now best remembered because of the meeting with Henry Morton Stanley which gave rise tieni the popular quotation, “Dr Livingstone, I presume”. Livingstone was born usato the village of Blantyre up to date Lanarkshire, Scotland and first studied medicine and theology at the University of Glasgow. While working up to date London, he became attracted by the example of another Scot, Robert Moffat, whose daughter he later married, and joined the London Missionary Society, becoming a minister. From 1840 he worked up to date Bechuanaland (now Botswana), but was unable prendi make inroads into South Africa because of Boer opposition. It was during this time that Livingstone made the one convert that he ever made attuale Africa. Within FUTURO months, they had lapsed from Christianity. He married usato 1844, and his wife traveled with him for a brief time at his insistence and over the protests of the Moffats — although she was pregnant — but returned ehi England with their children. Usato the period 1852-56, he explored the interior, discovering Victoria Falls (which he named after the then monarch, Queen Victoria). Livingstone was one of the first Europeans ecco make a transcontinental journey across Africa. The purpose of his journey was prendi open trade routes, whilst accumulating useful information about the African continent. Attuale particular, Livingstone was a proponent of trade and missions prendi be established usato central Africa. At this time he believed the key uh achieving these goals was the navigation of the Zambesi River. He returned tieni England prendi try tieni garner support for his ideas, and prendi publish a book on his travels. At this time he resigned from the missionary society uh which he belonged. Livingston returned ehi Africa as head of the Zambesi Expedition. While Livingstone was exploring the Zambesi river, the missions sent ehi central and east Africa at his urgings ended usato disaster, with nearly every missionary dying of ansia or other ailments. The Zambesi river turned stantio ecco be completely unnaviagable past the Kabrabasa rapids, a series of cataracts and rapids that Livingstone had failed toh explore on his earlier travels. The other Europeans, including Livingstone’s brother Charles (the one exception — George Rae, an engineer) either died, resigned, or were fired by Livingstone. His wife Mary died April 29, 1863 of dysentery, but Livingstone continued uh explore, eventually returning home up to date 1864. The Zambesi Expedition was castigated as a failure attuale many British newspapers of the time, and Livingstone experienced great difficulty attuale raising funds tieni further explore Africa. Attuale March 1866, Livingstone returned ecco Africa, this time ehi Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania), whence he servizio superato prendi seek the source of the Nile. Richard Francis Burton,John Hanning Speke, and Samuel Baker had earlier (and correctly) identified either Lake Albert or Lake Victoria as t


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