• #75 The Lion and the Tartan Jacket - Ep 3 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'

  • Jun 26 2024
  • Duración: 38 m
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#75 The Lion and the Tartan Jacket - Ep 3 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'

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  • The British audience for Livingstone’s book 'Missionary Travels' can’t get enough of his ‘manly’ and ‘forcible’ style. He brings a very personal mix of far-away adventure and science to his stories. His account of being mauled by a lion – shaken like ‘a terrier dog does a rat’ and how the tartan jacket saves his life – are still vivid reading. But had he not glossed over the danger of malaria and other diseases fatal to Victorian Britons (in much the same way as he casually dismissed as an ‘inconvenience’ the arm savaged by the lion and rendered useless even before his real exploring days had begun) fewer missionaries and their families would have died trying to follow in his footsteps. (R)

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