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Extracts from Literature
What the Signalman Saw
The guardian of a lonely signalbox recounts a truly haunting experience.
by Charles Dickens 1812-1870
Discovery and Invention
Thundering Smoke
David Livingstone relives the historic moment when he became the first European to see the Victoria Falls.
by David Livingstone 1813-1873
History of Africa
Africa’s Competitive Edge
Four years before the bloody American civil war, Dr David Livingstone proposed a peaceful way to rid the world of slavery.
The Missing Stair
David Balfour hopes his crusty uncle Ebenezer is beginning to soften towards him.
by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894
John Buchan
Recognition
Just as Richard Hannay was steeling himself to report failure in the hunt for a German agent, a stranger’s eye caught his own.
by John Buchan 1875-1940
Lost for Words
Welsh journalist Henry Stanley is despatched by head office in New York to find a missing British explorer.
by Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1841-1904
