David Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.

Cartwright (Justin) David Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. The Bookdealer (No1817). June 2010. 8vo,., 6pp. article, contained within the Bookdealer Magazine. This issue also includes a note on the controversy surrounding the publication of the first edition and the variants of Livingstone’s Book. Justin Cartwright, was born in South Africa, educated in the US and at Oxford. He has written a number of highly acclaimed, is a winner of the Whitbread Prize and has been short listed for the Booker Prize.
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