David Livingstone, his life and work as told and similar items

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. David Livingstone: His Life and Work as Told Through the Media of Postage Stamps and Allied Materials This book is in very good condition. David Livingstone (born March 19, 1813, Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland—died May 1, 1873, Chitambo [now in Zambia]) was a Scottish missionary and explorer who exercised a formative influence on Western attitudes toward Africa. Early life in Blantyre: David Livingstone's birthplace Shuttle Row, the tenement house where David Livingstone was born; the building is now part of the David Livingstone Centre, Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Livingstone grew up in a distinctively Scottish family environment of personal piety, poverty, hard work, zeal for education, and a sense of mission. His father’s family was from the island of Ulva, off the west coast of Scotland. His mother, a Lowlander, was descended from a family of Covenanters, a group of militant Presbyterians. Both were poor, and Livingstone was reared as one of seven children in a single room at the top of a tenement building for the workers of a cotton factory on the banks of the Clyde. At age 10 he had to help his family and was put to work in a cotton mill, and with part of his first week’s wages he bought a Latin grammar. Although he was brought up in the Calvinist faith of the established Scottish church, Livingstone, like his father, joined an independent Christian congregation of stricter discipline when he came to manhood. By this time, he had acquired those characteristics of mind and body that were to fit him for his African career.