{"product_id":"into-africa-isbn-9780767910743","title":"Into Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling coauthor of \u003ci\u003eSurvivor: The Ultimate Game\u003c\/i\u003e investigates in this thrilling account.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the utterance of a single line—“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”—a remote meeting   in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in   exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. David Livingstone and journalist   Henry Morton Stanley is one that has escaped telling. \u003ci\u003eInto Africa \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinarily   researched account of a thrilling adventure—defined by alarming foolishness, intense   courage, and raw human achievement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the mid-1860s, exploration had reached a   plateau. The seas and continents had been mapped, the globe circumnavigated. Yet   one vexing puzzle remained unsolved: what was the source of the mighty Nile river?   Aiming to settle the mystery once and for all, Great Britain called upon its legendary   explorer, Dr. David Livingstone, who had spent years in Africa as a missionary. In   March 1866, Livingstone steered a massive expedition into the heart of Africa. In   his path lay nearly impenetrable, uncharted terrain, hostile cannibals, and deadly   predators. Within weeks, the explorer had vanished without a trace. Years passed   with no word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While debate raged in England over whether Livingstone could be found—or   rescued—from a place as daunting as Africa, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., the brash   American newspaper tycoon, hatched a plan to capitalize on the world’s fascination   with the missing legend. He would send a young journalist, Henry Morton Stanley,   into Africa to search for Livingstone. A drifter with great ambition, but little   success to show for it, Stanley undertook his assignment with gusto, filing reports   that would one day captivate readers and dominate the front page of the \u003ci\u003eNew York   Herald\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tracing the amazing journeys of Livingstone and Stanley in alternating   chapters, author Martin Dugard captures with breathtaking immediacy the perils and   challenges these men faced. Woven into the narrative, Dugard tells an equally compelling   story of the remarkable transformation that occurred over the course of nine years,   as Stanley rose in power and prominence and Livingstone found himself alone and in   mortal danger. The first book to draw on modern research and to explore the combination   of adventure, politics, and larger-than-life personalities involved, \u003ci\u003eInto Africa\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting read.“An action-packed recounting of one of the most famous incidents in the history of exploration. Until well into the 19th century, European geography textbooks portrayed central Africa as a vast, uncharted wasteland, almost certainly a graveyard for any outsider unwise enough to enter it. . . . In the late 1860s, [David] Livingstone and a large entourage disappeared somewhere between Zanzibar and Lake Tanganyika while poking around for the source of the Nile. Enter \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHerald \u003c\/i\u003ecorrespondent Henry Morton Stanley. . . . Braving disease, difficult terrain, and all manner of deprivation, Stanley for three years [followed] Livingstone’s trail, despairing of ever finding the senior explorer. . . . Fine entertainment for adventure buffs, solidly researched and fluently told.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kirkus Reviews\u003ci\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Dugard\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eFarther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKnockdown: The Harrowing True Account of a Yacht Race Turned Deadly\u003c\/i\u003e, and coauthor of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller, \u003ci\u003eSurvivor: The Ultimate Game.\u003c\/i\u003e His dispatches have appeared in \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e. A lifelong adventurer, he completed the Raid Gauloise race and was coholder of the Around the World Speed Record. He lives in Orange County, California.CHAPTER 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Nile Duel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two Years Earlier - September 16, 1864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bath, England\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The catalyst for the saga of daring took place shortly after eleven in the morning   on Friday, September 16, 1864. Richard Francis Burton stood alone on the wooden speaker's   platform at the British Association for the Advancement of Science's annual convention,   awaiting his debate opponent. His wife, Isabel, sat a few feet behind. He clutched   a sheaf of arguments. He was strong but narrow in the shoulders and hips, like a   matador. His eyes were so dark brown they were often described as black. His mustache,   truly black, flowed over and around his lips to his chin. The legendary Somali scars   ran up his cheeks like slender compass arrows pointing north. He remained calm as   he watched the doors for John Hanning Speke's entrance. The fair-haired geographical   hero with the cold blue eyes was Burton's opposite, and Burton had waited six years   to settle their rivalry. A few minutes more meant little.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The audience felt differently.   It had been a wet, cramped morning and they were lathering into a righteous fury.   There had been rumors of a cancellation due to some sort of injury to Speke, but   the almost two thousand adventurers, dignitaries, journalists, and celebrity gazers   came anyway. They braved a howling rain to get seats for what the newspapers were   calling the Nile Duel, as if the debate were a bare-knuckle prizefight instead of   a defining moment in history. Burton and Speke would argue who had discovered the   source of the Nile River--the most consuming geographic riddle of all time. Curiously,   Burton and Speke made their conflicting source discoveries during the same expedition.   They had been partners. And even as they made plans to destroy one another, Burton   and Speke suppressed deep mutual compassion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e They were former friends--lovers, some   whispered--turned enemies. Theirs was a \"story of adventure, jealousy and recrimination,   which painted their achievements in bright or lurid lights and tragic shades,\" in   the words of Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay. Each man's aim was not just claiming   the Nile, but destroying the other socially, professionally, and financially. The   winner would know a permanent spot in the history books. The loser would be labeled   a delusional, presumptuous fool, with all the public ridicule that implied.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Speke   was a thin loner whose family home, Jordans, was just forty miles from Bath. He was   childlike, entitled, wealthy, bland, deaf in one ear. At thirty-seven, he doted on   his mother but had never courted any other woman. Critics acknowledged his prowess   as a sportsman, but puzzled over his penchant for slaughter and fondness for eating   the unborn fetus of a kill. They wondered about the character of a man who once gave   a rifle as a gift to an African chief fond of shooting subjects for fun, and who   allowed a live human child to be steamed like a lobster during a tribal ritual in   his honor. Speke felt that the ends justified the means--in this case, finding the   source was worth the loss of inconsequential African lives. The source, Speke claimed,   was a massive rectangular body of water the size of Scotland. He named it Victoria   Nyanza--Lake Victoria--for the Queen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The dark-haired Burton claimed Lake Tanganyika   as the source. That body of water lay 150 miles southwest of Victoria Nyanza, separated   by mountainous, unexplored jungle. Burton did not dispute that the Nile flowed from   Victoria, but he believed that another, yet undiscovered, river flowed from Tanganyika   through the mountains, into Victoria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lake Tanganyika's shape was slender and vertical   on the map, like a womb parting to give birth to the great Nile. Its choice as Burton's   geographical talisman was apt, for his character tics veered toward the sensual.   The accomplished linguist had a fondness for Arab prostitutes and would someday write   the first English translation of the Kama Sutra. In 1845, as a young army officer   stationed in India, he'd been ordered to investigate Karachi's homosexual brothels.   Burton's detailed reportage implicated fellow officers and evinced suspicion about   his own sexuality--both of which combined to ruin his career. So he'd become an explorer.   His knowledge of languages and Islam allowed him to infiltrate cities like Mecca   and Harar, which were forbidden to non-Muslims. The resulting books about those escapades   were best-sellers in the mid-1850s, earning Burton a reputation for daring while   introducing Oriental thoughts and words to his readers. It was Burton who made the   term safari--Swahili for \"journey\"--familiar to the English-speaking world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The   mob packing the auditorium, so eager for spectacle and rage, knew the Burton and   Speke story well. The time had come for resolution. When the eleven o'clock starting   time came and passed, the crowd \"gave vent to its impatience by sounds more often   heard from the audience of a theater than a scientific meeting,\" sniffed the Bath   Chronicle. The audience gossiped loudly about Speke's whereabouts and stared at the   stage, scrutinizing Burton with that unflinching gaze reserved for the very famous.   In an era when no occupation was more glamorous than African explorer, Burton's features   were already well known through photographs and sketches from his books. But for   many in the audience, seeing his face up close, in person, was why they'd come. They   felt the same about Speke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There was a third explorer many hoped to glimpse, a man   whose legend was arguably greater than any living explorer. \"The room,\" the Chronicle   noted of the auditorium, \"was crowded with ladies and gentlemen who were radiant   with the hope of seeing Dr. Livingstone.\" The British public hadn't caught a glimpse   of their beloved Livingstone since the halcyon days of 1857 when he seemed to be   everywhere at once. His exploits had been a balm for the wounds of the Crimean War,   the ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade, and the bloody slaughter of British women   and children during the Indian Mutiny. Livingstone reminded Victorian Britain of   her potential for greatness. The fifty-one-year-old Scot was their hero archetype,   an explorer brave, pious, and humble; so quick with a gun that Waterloo hero the   Duke of Wellington nicknamed Livingstone \"the fighting parson.\" Livingstone was equally   at home wandering the wilds of Africa and making small talk over tea with the Queen.   The public made his books best-sellers, his speeches standing room, his name household.   Livingstone was beloved in Britain, and so famous worldwide that one poll showed   that only Victoria herself was better known.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Livingstone, though, wasn't scheduled   to appear at the Nile Duel. His first public appearance since returning from an exploration   of Africa's Zambezi River six months earlier was officially supposed to take place   the following Monday. He would lecture the British Association on the details of   that journey. Ticket demand was so enormous that Livingstone, standing before a massive   map of Africa, would give the speech live in one theater as Clements Markham of the   Royal Geographical Society read it concurrently to the overflow crowd in a second   auditorium. The Chronicle's special edition would publish the text in its entirety.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rumors, however, said Livingstone would make an appearance at the Nile Duel as moderator.   His appearance would confirm the Duel's heft and counterbalance smirks of innuendo.   For celebrity gazers and scientists alike, Livingstone, Burton, and Speke on the   same stage would elevate the proceedings from grudge match to intellectual field   day. Those three greats hurling geographical barbs would make the long hours in the   rain more than worthwhile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ironically, the crowd was unaware that the larger-than-life   Livingstone was enduring a season of tumultuous upheaval. His problems had begun   with the five-year journey up the Zambezi. The expedition had accomplished a great   deal. But many of his companions died during the journey--including Livingstone's   wife, Mary, who had been so desperate to be with him she left the safety of England   to venture into Africa to find him, then joined the expedition halfway through the   journey. Because of the deaths, the failure of a highly touted project that would   have established Christian missions in the African interior, and reports that Livingstone   was an inept leader, the British Government viewed the Zambezi expedition as a debacle.   Hence, the Times questioned Livingstone's judgment, he was persona non grata at the   Foreign Office--his place of employment--and influential Christian politician William   Gladstone quietly severed their relationship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Financially, Livingstone was almost   destitute. Even as friends urged him to retire and spend time with his children,   he needed one last great geographical discovery so he could write the best-selling   book about his travels that would provide for him and his children. \"I don't know   whether I am to go on the shelf or not,\" he wrote to a friend, acknowledging that   the Foreign Office might never let him lead another expedition, but vowing to return   to Africa nonetheless. \"If I do, I make Africa the shelf.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Most devastating of all,   however, was that Robert, his prodigal eldest son, had secretly sailed to America   to fight for the Union Army in their Civil War. Robert Livingstone had been taken   prisoner during the siege of Richmond and been sent to a Confederate prisoner of   war camp. There was no news of his whereabouts or physical condition. Livingstone,   tragically, had castigated Robert for being aimless and base not long before the   boy fled to America and enlisted.","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300420243685,"sku":"NP9780767910743","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780767910743.jpg?v=1767730124","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/into-africa-isbn-9780767910743","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}