Digging the Dust: May 2015 http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com/2015_05_01_archive.html
The Royal Navy vessel that was cruising the coast of East Africa as part of the suppression of the slave trade and was given orders to assist Livingstone. Unlike more formal, often censored, accounts and biographies, Devereaux has a wry, if somewhat condescending masculine superiority, and while not all that he writes is completely trustworthy or accurate, the book gives the detached outsider's view of several individuals of the Expedition. The author speaks of what he does not understand. It is easy...
Digging the Dust: The "Blythe Spirit" - The Zambezi Expedition (5) http://dustyheaps.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-blythe-spirit-zambezi-expedition-5.html
The Royal Navy vessel that was cruising the coast of East Africa as part of the suppression of the slave trade and was given orders to assist Livingstone. Unlike more formal, often censored, accounts and biographies, Devereaux has a wry, if somewhat condescending masculine superiority, and while not all that he writes is completely trustworthy or accurate, the book gives the detached outsider's view of several individuals of the Expedition. The author speaks of what he does not understand. It is easy...