Hailed as an explorer unrivalled since the Elizabethan era, Livingstone was also revered by the Victorians as a near saint - a myth in his own lifetime. This biography attempts to show that this myth of Livingstone was, in actual fact, a distortion of the truth and that the real man was far more remarkable - a man capable of ruthless cruelty as well as self-sacrifice, and dogged all his life by contradiction and failure; for Livingstone failed as a missionary, failed as a parent and failed on his search for the Nile's source.
- ISBN10 0399112154
- ISBN13 9780399112157
- Publish Date 20 September 1973 (first published May 1973)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English