{"product_id":"david-livingstone-144175024x","title":"David Livingstone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144175024X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hughes, Thomas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduct Description [Read by Frederick Davidson] 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. About the Author THOMAS HUGHES (1822-1896), was born at Uffington, Berks and educated at Rugby and Oriel College, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1848, becoming a county court judge in 1882. He was a liberal M.P. closely associated with the Christian Socialist and supported trade unionism and helped to found the Working Men's College and a settlement in Tennessee, U.S.A. He wrote a number of biographies and social studies, but he is primarily remembered as the author of the semi-autobiographical public school classic, Tom Brown's Shooldays (1856).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68040398504224,"sku":"NEW144175024X","price":27.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71lBxL26SaL.jpg?v=1793228288","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/david-livingstone-144175024x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}