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David Livingstone
1872 - Between Unyanyembe and Bangweulu
On the inland road between Unyanyembe and Bangweulu, the missionary who opened central Africa to the world writes what the continent taught him about faith.
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Napoleon III
1872 - Chislehurst
Exile, bodily humiliation, and the fight against simplification by defeat.
In exile at Chislehurst, a fallen emperor writes the account that Paris will never permit to be published.
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James Clerk Maxwell
1878 - Glenlair, Kirkcudbrightshire
At Glenlair in the Scottish hills, a physicist whose equations unified light and magnetism reflects on a life spent making the invisible visible.
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David Livingstone
1872 - Between Unyanyembe and Bangweulu
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On the inland road between Unyanyembe and Bangweulu, the missionary who opened central Africa to the world writes what the continent taught him about faith.
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