David Livingstone: Explorer and Missionary

For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of the Heroes of the Faith. The novelized biographies of this series are inspiring and easy-to-read, ideal for Christians of any age or background. In David Livingstone, you’ll get to know the Scottish explorer who carried the gospel to the heart of nineteenth-century Africa—and gained worldwide fame as the man who introduced Victoria Falls to the outside world. Appropriate for readers from junior high through adult, helpful for believers of any background, these biographies encourage greater Christian commitment through the example of heroes like David Livingstone.

The smoke of a thousand villages beckoned him. . .and where there was smoke, there would someday be fire.

To go where no missionary had ever been, to smell the smoke of unknown villages, to witness to people beyond the vast Kalahari—such were the dreams of David Livingstone.

            Best remembered as the recipient of Henry Stanley’s understated query, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”, the humble missionary disdained acclaim during his lifetime. Born into poverty in Scotland and educated in medicine, he was first sent to South Africa in 1840 but quickly recognized the dearth of missionaries in northern regions. From Angola to Mozambique to Victoria Falls, David Livingstone’s life and writings would ignite the flame of faith in the Dark Continent.