Out Of Darkness, Shining Light: A Novel

"When African explorer David Livingstone died in 1873 in what is now Zambia, the remaining members of his expedition carried his body for 1,500 miles so he could be sent back to Britain for burial. This brilliantly conceived novel is told by two narrators: Livingstone’s cook Halima, a young slave whom Livingstone bought as a “road wife” for his expedition leader, and Jacob Wainwright, an educated former slave and devout Christian, who reads the explorer’s journals and writes his own on the 285-day journey east. Their voices show us the complexity and contradictory beliefs of a man whom most of us know only by the phrase “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”"