Zambesi

Zambesi
Author: Lawrence Dritsas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857718088

"Zambesi" tells the story of David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition. It exposes the rivalry among some of Victorian Britain's leading establishment figures and institutions - including the Foreign Office, the Royal Society, Royal Geographical Society, British Museum, Kew Gardens and the Admiralty - as abolitionists, scientists, and entrepreneurs sought to promote and protect their differing interests. Making use of letters, documents and materials neglected by previous writers and researchers, the author reveals how tensions arose from the very beginning between those in pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and the proponents of the civilizing missions who saw scientific knowledge as the utilitarian means to a social end. The result is an exciting story involving one of England's most feted Victorian heroes that offers important new insights in the practice and politics of expeditionary science in Victorian England. This is the definitive account of the expedition to date.

Kirk on the Zambesi

Kirk on the Zambesi
Author: Sir Reginald Coupland
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1928
Genre: Africa, Central
ISBN:

Expedition to the Zambesi

Expedition to the Zambesi
Author: David Livingstone
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 1411672054

A popular account of an expedition to the Zambesi and the previously unexplored country, with it's river systems, natural productions, and capabilities; and to highlight the misery entailed by the slave-trade in its inland phases; a subject on which I and my companions are the first who have had any opportunities of forming a judgment.

Bridging the Zambesi

Bridging the Zambesi
Author: Landeg White
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1993-06-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 134912365X

In 1935, a bridge was opened across the Zambesi delta in Portuguese East Africa. 51 years later, it was blown up by anti-government forces. This book brings together politics, diplomacy, economics, labour history and technology to show how this engineering feat was a disaster of colonial planning.