This article examines the production of illustrations for David Livingstone's Missionary Travels (1857) by concentrating on the assumed connection or closeness of the images to Livingstone. First, it focuses on illustrations that were produced
on the basis of sketches made by Livingstone or on objects collected by him. Second, it examines images produced with his assistance and, third, illustrations that were only remotely connected or completely unrelated to Livingstone and the journey told
Writing and remembrance : new directions in Livingstone studies
Livingstone studies : Bicentenary essays
Epoque victorienne ; Exploration ; Histoire de la géographie ; Impérialisme ; LIVINGSTONE (D.) ; Recherche ; Récit de voyage ; Savoir géographique
This volume of essays contains some of the best recent work on the Victorian missionary and explorer Livingstone, gathered together for the bicentenary of his birth. It summarises the various papers in the collection, gathered together under the two
broad thematic categories of writing and remembrance. The papers speak well beyond their Livingstone focus. Scholars are directed to the margins of empire, as the articles articulate the importance of peripheral spaces and intercultural interaction
H.M. Stanley, David Livingstone, and the staging of Anglo-Saxon manliness
Livingstone studies : Bicentenary essays
Afrique ; Afrique centrale ; Colonialisme ; Ethnicité ; Exploration ; Histoire coloniale ; Histoire de la géographie ; Impérialisme ; LIVINGSTONE (D.) ; Récit de voyage ; STANLEY (H.M.) ; Siècle 19 ; Virilité anglo-saxonne
The article examines the portrayal of the meeting between the Scottish missionary David Livingstone and the Welsh-American journalist Henry Morton Stanley in Stanley's popular travelogue How I Found Livingstone (1872). It analyses Stanley's
ambivalent attitude to his own Celtic and Welsh identity and suggests that he also deliberately plays down Livingstone's Scottishness. By using the peripheral space of Central Africa to delineate a mode of Anglo-Saxon manliness in response to specific
David Livingstone's missionary travels in Britain and America : exploring the wider circulation of a Victorian travel narrative
Livingstone studies : Bicentenary essays
Afrique du Sud ; Commerce ; Exploration ; LIVINGSTONE (D.) ; Récit de voyage ; Savoir géographique ; Siècle 19
First published in London in 1857 by Murray, Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa was the bestselling travel narrative in nineteenth-century Britain. The remarkable commercial success it enjoyed helps to explain
the significant scholarly attention it has attracted to date. The paper extends the critical focus, demonstrating that the remarkable appetite for knowledge of Livingstone and his travels at this time gave rise to a set of alternative accounts. While
these publications have not yet received significant scholarly attention, the paper reveals that both Livingstone and his publisher had real concerns about their potential to undermine the authorised volume.
The article examines 19th century British documentation on the Central African village Nyangwe and its inhabitants produced by the three British explorers (D. Livingstone, V.L. Cameron, and H.M.Stanley) who visited this settlement in the 1870s