DR. LIVINGSTONE, I PRESUME?: FINDING A MISSING HERO IN THE HEART OF AFRICA

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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"Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?"-Born John Rowland to a prostitute in England in 1841 who promptly abandoned him, Henry Morton Stanley emigrated to America in 1861, joined the Confederate Army, was wounded at Shiloh, captured, and became a "galvanized" Yankee, before joining the Union Navy. He became a freelance writer and was hired by the New York Herald to take on an extremely dangerous mission-that of finding the missing British explorer David Livingstone dead or alive somewhere in the heart of Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Oh, Oh, Welcome to another episode of 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries.
0:57.0	Our website where we house all our shows and sponsor links is located at www.1,000 one stories podcast.com.
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1:14.0	One of today's sponsors is audible.com. Check out the end of our show for a way to get the
1:19.3	audible book Into Africa, The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingston by Martin
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1:29.8	recommend and it will keep you on the edge of your seat just as we hope this story
1:34.0	will this is your host and storyteller John Haggadorn and this is our story.
1:39.8	In the years following the American Civil War, journalism in America was flourishing.
1:45.6	The newspaper was king.
1:47.1	The world was becoming smaller every day.
1:49.6	And the last largely unexplored continent, Africa, held a huge fascination in the minds of many.
1:55.6	The only means of information was the printed word.
1:59.0	In October of 1869, James Gordon Bennett Jr. The 28-year-old editor of the New York Herald, a paper with
2:06.1	an astronomical circulation of 60,000 copies a day, sensed a story in the making.
2:12.4	Specifically, he hoped to exploit the fame and
2:14.9	mystery surrounding British explorer Dr David Livingston who had been missing in
2:19.7	Africa for four years. Livingston was in Africa to find the source of the Nile River.
2:25.6	Explorers had looked for it since Herodotus attempted a search around
2:29.6	460 BC but as centuries passed and failures mounted the quest to come an almost
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