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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- Narrateur(s): John Lee
- Durée: 11 h et 46 min
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"It is rare when a historical narrative keeps readers up late into the night....But author and adventurer Dugard...makes a suspenseful tale out of journalist Stanley's successful trek through the African interior to find and rescue a stranded Livingstone....This is a well-researched, always engrossing book." (Publishers Weekly)
"Dugard imbues the narrative with a keen sense of urgency that propels this compelling account along." (Booklist)
"An action-packed recounting of one of the most famous incidents in the history of exploration. Fine entertainment for adventure buffs, solidly researched and fluently told." (Kirkus)
"Crisp vivid language...transports the armchair adventurer from the jungle muck to the mountain peak." (Esquire)
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- Lani
- 2021-03-08
I never knew...
In listening to this book I discovered that the only thing I really new about Livingstone was that he was in Africa and Stanley found him and said "Doctor Livingstone, I presume." The circumstances and the effort needed by all parties was in turn exhausting, catastrophic, and deadly.
It's a great piece of history.
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- GrandTour
- 2018-11-25
Read it many times before but the narrator...
is unbelievable...love this story but John Lee really brings it to life. His accents, elocution is the best I've heard.
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- Shant M.
- 2023-06-01
Absolutely wonderful and immensely fascinating
One is delved into a time not so long ago yet evasively distant to a world in which life seems to have held much excitement and awe of unknown lands and their exploration and exploits. An absolute recommendation.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2022-06-19
Livingstone
The book is very interesting. I enjoy the narrator’s attempt at mimicking accents. I did not like the authors suggestion to Livingstone’s possible promiscuous living. Otherwise a well done book.
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- Alfred Birchmore
- 2023-12-05
Very thorough telling
I really enjoyed this book. I have always wondered about this particular part of history. Great narration truly made it come to life. Great job! Thank you.
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- Roberta W
- 2024-03-13
Epic
This truly is an epic tale. In terms of sequence, I recently listened to How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa, by Henry Stanley, first. It was the gaps in my knowledge after that book that that caused me to read Into Africa. If you are a methodical reader, you may want to start with Into Africa first, however I quite enjoyed the way things unfolded for me, with Stanley’s hunt for Livingston first. In terms of slavery, Livingston abhorred it, influencing Stanley’s thinking on the matter, as he observed the dignity Livingston treated the slaves that were part of his entourage.
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