The David Livingstone Trail

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Follow in the footsteps of the great missionary explorer Dr. David Livingstone on his epic exploration of the Zambezi River during the year 1855.

The clarity of Livingstone's missionary objective during this journey has tended to be offset by the complexity of his character, and the determined individualism that at times both ruined and exemplified his character. Livingstone combined the highest moral virtues with the worst vices of jealousy, arrogance and intolerance. Recognizing his own success in individual endeavor, Livingstone eventually abandoned much of the wide missionary outreach of the first half of his life and adopted instead a vague and solitary quest. Until his death in 1873 he strove relentlessly to expose and eradicate the African Slave Trade, while also trying prove against the odds that the Source of the Nile lay somewhere in the south.

Whatever else David Livingstone might have been during the course of his life, he was without doubt the greatest of the Victorian explorers, whose work laid to rest many of the most important geographic questions of his time. My Livingstone Trail will follow the Zambezi River from its headwaters in northern Zambia, through Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi. En route along this great river in 1855 Livingstone became the first English speaking European to witness and name the Victoria Falls, and to within the realm of western knowledge he put the last of the Great Rift Valley lakes, Lake Nyasa, as it was known then, and Lake Malawi as it is today.

Call or email me for more information on dates, times and costs of this trip, scheduled possibly for late summer. If you are interested in this trip, or any other on my site, or even suggestions that are not on my site, but that you would like to do.

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