LIVINGSTONE, TIM JEAL, ST, DUST JACKET IN SOUTH AFRICA

TITLE........................: LIVINGSTONE  AUTHOR...................: TIM JEAL  PUBLISHER...............:BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES  DATE & EDITION.......:st  COVER SIZE (mm)....: 160 x 240  CONDITION...............: good  DUST JACKET...........: wear & creasing esp.to extremities, chips, abrasions to spine  COVERS.....................:green boards, light age soiling with slight wear to edges  SPINE.........................: with title, slight wear to extremities,  END & FLY PAPERS.: good  PAGES.......................: 427pp including index, clean  BINDING....................: tight  PLATES & MAPS.......: 16pp b/w photographs, 11 line illustrations, and 6 maps  INSCRIPTIONS..........: no  SYNOPSIS, BLURB...:   Published to coincide with the centenary of Livingstone's death n , Tim Jeal's comprehensive biography shows this myth to have been a bizarre distortion, and in doing so reveals Livingstone as a complex and paradoxical figure, a man capable of self-sacrifice and ruthless cruelty, dogged throughout his life by self doubts, contradictions and failures.