Out of darkness, shining light

Gappah, Petina 1971- (author.).

Summary: This is how we carried out of Africa the poor broken body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, David Livingstone, so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own land. So begins Petina Gappah's powerful novel of exploration and adventure in nineteenth-century Africa - the captivating story of the African men and women who carried explorer and missionary Dr. Livingstone's body, his papers and maps, fifteen hundred miles across Africa, so his remains could be returned home to England and his work preserved there. Narrated by two of his attendants, Halima, the doctor's sharp-tongued cook, and Jacob Wainwright, Livingstone's rigidly pious secretary, the story winds through the continent in the time just before its colonization by European powers.

Record details

ISBN: 9781982110338 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
regular print
303 pages : map ; 23 cm
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Being a faithful account of the final years and earthly days of Doctor David Livingstone and his last journey from the interior to the coast of Africa, as narrated by his African companions, in three volumes.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.