Scottish explorer and missionary (1813-1873)

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Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa. Coloured wood engraving by H. Hall after H.M. Stanley, ca.1872.

David Livingstone, seated looking to the left. Engraving by J. Cochran after J. Mayall.

David Livingstone's house at Hamilton, Scotland. Coloured lithograph.

David Livingstone (?) and his followers on a boat, attacked by hippopotamus. Lithograph.

David Livingstone arriving at Lake Ngami in 1849. Lithograph.

David Livingstone. Photograph.

David Livingstone, holding a gun, attacked by a lion; Africans and a missionary in the foreground. Etching.

David Livingstone. Stipple engraving by W. Holl after H. Phillips.

The meeting between David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley in Africa, 28 October 1872. Coloured wood engraving after G. Durand.

Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa ... / by David Livingstone.

A crocodile emerging from the Zambezi river and biting off a woman's leg. Chromolithograph, 18--.

A woman attacked by a crocodile emerging from the water, in central Africa. Lithograph, 1874.

The last journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his death : continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi / by Horace Waller.

David Livingstone's Shire journal, 1861-1864 / edited by Gary W. Clendennen ; foreword by George A. Shepperson.

Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853 / edited with an introduction by I. Schapera.

Family letters, 1841-1856 / edited with an introduction by I. Schapera.

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Livingstone, David, 1813-1873

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The last journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his death : continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi / by Horace Waller.

David Livingstone's Shire journal, 1861-1864 / edited by Gary W. Clendennen ; foreword by George A. Shepperson.

Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853 / edited with an introduction by I. Schapera.

Family letters, 1841-1856 / edited with an introduction by I. Schapera.

A woman attacked by a crocodile emerging from the water, in central Africa. Lithograph, 1874.