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Livingstone's birthplace in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, Scotland David Livingstone's birthplace, with period furnishings. Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813 in the mill town of Blantyre, Scotland, in a tenement building for the workers of a cotton factory on the banks of the River Clyde under the bridge crossing into Bothwell. [6]
James Johnston (1851 – November 1921) was a British missionary, early photographer, doctor and explorer. He created his own mission at Brown's Town in Jamaica. He took six Jamaicans to help him on his journey across central Africa from west to east to cross the continent and rediscover David Livingstone's mission.
Trailblazer Books are a series of middle-grade historical fiction children's novels about Christian figures authored by Dave and Neta Jackson. Published between 1991 and 2003, the 40 books in the series each feature a young person—sometimes an actual historical figure and sometimes a fictional character—who interacts with a notable Protestant religious leader, missionary, or social reformer.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American [1] [2] [a] explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
Pratt was a linguist and authored the first grammar and dictionary on the Samoan language, first published in 1862 at the Samoa Mission Press. In 1840, the medical missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813–1873) departed for South Africa, arriving in 1841, and serving with the LMS until 1857. Moffat and Livingstone met circa 1841. In ...
The expedition led to the establishment of the Central Africa Mission and was under the command of Dr. David Livingstone, who would become famous for his journeys into the interior of Africa. [2] The burial site of Mary Moffat Livingstone in Chupanga, Mozambique.
Kolobeng Mission (also known as the Livingstone Memorial), built in 1847, the third and final mission of David Livingstone, a missionary and explorer of Africa.Located in the country of Botswana, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of Kumakwane and 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Gaborone off the Thamaga-Kanye Road, the mission housed a church and a school and was also the home of David Livingstone, his ...
1857 – David Livingstone's Missionary Travels, published – one of the many great 19th-century publications of exploration from John Murray; 1859 – On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin published; 1859 – The first self-help book, Samuel Smiles's Self Help, published; 1863 – Henry Walter Bates's The Naturalist on the River Amazons ...