Author: MOORHOUSE, GEOFFREY
Title: The missionaries
Description: London: Eyre Methuen, 1973 (1st ed.); 8vo (24.5cm), black-white woodcuts and 25 photographs, endnotes, bibliography, index, cloth w. pictorial dustjacket. V. good copy. ¶ 'I go back to Africa to make an open path for commerce and Christianit!' said David Livingstone in 1857, at the height of his fame. What manner of men and women were the missionaries? (blurb)

Keywords: 19th century Africa colonialism