Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Subjects: Missions — South Africa Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there…. More >>
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
This gentle, brave man was explorer, missionary, doctor, scientist and anti-slavery activist. He traveled 29,000 miles in Africa and added about a million square miles to the known portion of the earth. His writings were decisive in ending three hundred years of African slave trading. And here’s the end of the story: he died of fever in a small African village while kneeling in prayer by his bedside. His body was returned to England and is buried in Westminster Abbey. But his heart, as he wished it to be, was buried by the natives, in Africa.
A fascinating life, well-told. A book to not only enjoy, but treasure.
Rating: 5 / 5