David Livingstone Man of Prayer and Action (Audible Audio Edition) C Silvester Horne Ralph Cosham Inc Blackstone Audio Books
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Written just 40 years after David Livingstone's death, this admiring account of the famous missionary's life and work takes us deep into the "dark continent" of 19th-century Africa, where he labored to bring "Christianity, commerce, and civilization." A national hero in Victorian Britain, Livingstone earned fame as an explorer and scientific investigator, an antislavery crusader, and imperial reformer, as well as in the role of a Protestant missionary and martyr who eventually died in Africa of malaria.
From the book "In those forty years great and astounding changes have been witnessed in the Continent which is associated with his fame....But nothing that has happened since has diminished by a single laurel the wreath he won, and will wear for ever....Livingstone is greatest, not as a scientist, nor an explorer, but as a man and a missionary."
Charles Silvester Horne (1865-1914) studied theology at Mansfield College, Oxford, became a well-known Congregationalist minister, and additionally served as a member of the British parliament for Ipswich, England.
David Livingstone Man of Prayer and Action (Audible Audio Edition) C Silvester Horne Ralph Cosham Inc Blackstone Audio Books
David Livingstone: Man of Prayer and Action was written by C. Silvester Horne. Mr. Horne was a member of the British parliament when he died in 1914. His biography of Dr. Livingstone came out only the year before. Christian Liberty Press obtained the copyright in 1999 and released the book in audio format the next year. As the original narrative is a hundred years old some allowance should be made for the passage of time. However, even so, Horne's biography of David Livingstone borders on hero worship.Dr. Livingstone was certainly a deeply devout Christian and a man who lived his faith. However, except for how he documented plant and animal life, and other scientific work Horne's account of Dr. Livingstone life beyond his faith is not particularly informative. The listener is told again and again that Livingstone actively opposed slavery, but we are not told exactly how he did so. Similarly, the reader is not well informed about how Livingstone prepared for his travels or how despite language barriers he was able to preach, and sometimes convert, the local population. Moreover, Horne devotes the final chapter to Livingstone's "personality" as if Livingstone's "personality" could be divorced from how he lived his life.
The most straightforward and informative part of the storyline, recounts Henry Stanley's departure from Livingstone. Here Horne quotes liberally for Stanley's own words. Stanley was a newspaper journalist. He wrote so to be understood by an individual quietly reading a newspaper.
Horne in contrast was known for his oratory, both in church as a preacher and in parliament as a politician. He was a master of the spoken, not written, word. His book on Livingstone is, in essence, a spirited sermon.
While the original text is a hundred years old, the narrator Ralph Cusham, reads the text as if he wrote it himself. He does not sound like a man from the 21st Century. His cadence, accent, and tone are most fitting for a book about a Christian missionary and explorer of the 19th Century.
There are several audio books about Dr. Livingstone, Henry Stanley, and the exploration of Africa. Most probably do a better (they could hardly do worse) of re-counting this unique period of history in a logical, coherent, balanced fashion. However, Horne did not intend his treatment of Livingstone to be a definitive biography. Rather he intended for the reader (or listener) to appreciate the power of Christ as it was expressed through Dr. Livingstone. To this end, C. Silvester Horne very much succeeded.
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David Livingstone Man of Prayer and Action (Audible Audio Edition) C Silvester Horne Ralph Cosham Inc Blackstone Audio Books Reviews
David Livingstone Man of Prayer and Action was written by C. Silvester Horne. Mr. Horne was a member of the British parliament when he died in 1914. His biography of Dr. Livingstone came out only the year before. Christian Liberty Press obtained the copyright in 1999 and released the book in audio format the next year. As the original narrative is a hundred years old some allowance should be made for the passage of time. However, even so, Horne's biography of David Livingstone borders on hero worship.
Dr. Livingstone was certainly a deeply devout Christian and a man who lived his faith. However, except for how he documented plant and animal life, and other scientific work Horne's account of Dr. Livingstone life beyond his faith is not particularly informative. The listener is told again and again that Livingstone actively opposed slavery, but we are not told exactly how he did so. Similarly, the reader is not well informed about how Livingstone prepared for his travels or how despite language barriers he was able to preach, and sometimes convert, the local population. Moreover, Horne devotes the final chapter to Livingstone's "personality" as if Livingstone's "personality" could be divorced from how he lived his life.
The most straightforward and informative part of the storyline, recounts Henry Stanley's departure from Livingstone. Here Horne quotes liberally for Stanley's own words. Stanley was a newspaper journalist. He wrote so to be understood by an individual quietly reading a newspaper.
Horne in contrast was known for his oratory, both in church as a preacher and in parliament as a politician. He was a master of the spoken, not written, word. His book on Livingstone is, in essence, a spirited sermon.
While the original text is a hundred years old, the narrator Ralph Cusham, reads the text as if he wrote it himself. He does not sound like a man from the 21st Century. His cadence, accent, and tone are most fitting for a book about a Christian missionary and explorer of the 19th Century.
There are several audio books about Dr. Livingstone, Henry Stanley, and the exploration of Africa. Most probably do a better (they could hardly do worse) of re-counting this unique period of history in a logical, coherent, balanced fashion. However, Horne did not intend his treatment of Livingstone to be a definitive biography. Rather he intended for the reader (or listener) to appreciate the power of Christ as it was expressed through Dr. Livingstone. To this end, C. Silvester Horne very much succeeded.
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