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Prize-winning author Petina Gappah''s tale of Dr Livingstone''s epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is incredible'' (Yaa Gyasi), ''powerful'' (Jesmyn Ward), and ''beautiful'' (Anthony Doerr).

A fine writer.' J.M. Coetzee
Wonderful.' The Times

Captivating.' Guardian

This is the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles across the African interior so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own country. This is the story of those in the shadows of history: those who saved a white man's bones, his dark companions, who became his faithful retinue on an epic funeral march - little knowing that his corpse carried the maps that sowed the seeds of the continent's brutal colonisation and enslavement. This is the story of how human bravery, loyalty, and love can

Out of Darkness Shining Light

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 03/09/2020
      ISBN13: 9780571345342, 978-0571345342
      ISBN10: 0571345344
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Prize-winning author Petina Gappah''s tale of Dr Livingstone''s epic journey through nineteenth-century Africa is incredible'' (Yaa Gyasi), ''powerful'' (Jesmyn Ward), and ''beautiful'' (Anthony Doerr).

      A fine writer.' J.M. Coetzee
      Wonderful.' The Times

      Captivating.' Guardian

      This is the story of the body of Bwana Daudi, the Doctor, the explorer David Livingstone and the sixty-nine men and women who carried his remains for 1,500 miles across the African interior so that he could be borne across the sea and buried in his own country. This is the story of those in the shadows of history: those who saved a white man's bones, his dark companions, who became his faithful retinue on an epic funeral march - little knowing that his corpse carried the maps that sowed the seeds of the continent's brutal colonisation and enslavement. This is the story of how human bravery, loyalty, and love can

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