It is estimated that 100 would-be-rescuers died in more than thirteen separate expeditions sent to discover Fawcett’s fate. Rumours emerged that the lost party had been killed by cannibals.

Livingstone, worn down by disease, died in today’s Zambia, on May 1, 1873, a year and a half after his meeting with Stanley. His attendants mummified his body and handed it over to British ...

Livingstone wrote letters and sent plants and seeds to Kew during his journeys across Africa. Below is an excerpt from a list written by Livingstone upon his return to England in 1857, describing ...

The city of Livingstone houses a 90-year-old museum with an important collection of David Livingstone letters and memorabilia. We got to the city via an hour-long internal flight from Lusaka.

Retracing Livingstone’s Zambezi expedition takes him from Sesheke to Victoria Falls, named by Livingstone in honour of Queen Victoria, ... David Livingstone (1813 - 1873) ...

Fiala’s big customers are the Wilkins and Williams expeditions into the ... Africa— On Jan. 27, 1863 the late David Livingstone took a sheet of blue foolscap* and wrote to “His Excellency ...

But behind it lies the remarkable story of a local man who, aged just 19, accompanied Dr David Livingstone on landmark expeditions to Africa and became a ‘righthand man’ to the legendary explorer.

Henry Stanley and David Livingstone are paddled by natives along the river Rusigi. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. A hero of Victorian Britain, son of the Scottish working classes, devout missionary, and ...

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