Basil Mathews

This is a beautiful story. It is well told and really goes through all of David Livingstone's life.
I know some people question his spread of the gospel sometimes and say he was just another colonizer, but reading this book and also researching alongside it the different countries he travelled through and the different places that still revere him, it paints better picture.

I cried through the last 2.5 chapters and recommend this book for 5th grade onward. It helps to see mission work. It show more helps to understand how God works through our lives. It helps to understand that things don't always go our way, but our life is to glorify God. It also helps to understand history and how slavery affected the African continent in a way we don't normally study in America or Britain. The mention of the different groups enslaving the continent and also the way the different tribes interacted is especially helpful.

I enjoyed it immensely with my middle schoolers and just for myself as well. show less