David Livingstone

Missionary-explorer of Africa

After Livingstone opened Africa, Western missionaries moved in by the thousands. Did they hurt or help Africans?

Henry Stanley did more than find Livingstone—he followed him.

Those closest to the remarkable explorer were often remarkable themselves.

The same traits that led the explorer to greatness, led him into the Zambezi disaster.

Bachelor Livingstone's unromantic stroll into marriage.

Though Livingstone loved his family, he spent little time with them.

African slavery thwarted every effort to eradicate it.

The explorer encounters an exotic continent.