Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of his birth, this book looks at the life and impact of David Livingstone - doctor, explorer and missionary. This new biography draws on previously unavailable material: diaries and letters written by Livingstone while at his lowest ebb in Africa, that can now be read because of the work of the David Livingstone Spectral Imagine Project. Livingstone was driven by a passion to convert new tribes in Africa to Christianity, but he was equally concerned to free them from slavery. While the slave trade had been abolished in 1807 from the UK point of view, it still flourished in many parts of Africa, and Livingstone set out to fight it, through exploration and publicity. This less well known part of his work is fully covered in this title.