Born March 19, 1813 in Blantyre, near Glasgow in the family vender tea.With ten years he worked in a textile factory. After college Anderson received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow and contacting the London Missionary Society, was sent to South Africa.In July 1841 arrived in Kuruman and spent seven years in the country Bechuanas (modern Botswana), make a trip to organize the mission station. At Livingston had the idea to explore all the rivers of South Africa to find new ways inland.In 1849 he explored the northeastern part of the Kalahari Desert, to establish the nature of the landscape in the area and opened a temporary lake Ngami. In the 1851- 1856 biennium. took a trip on the Zambezi River.Reaching the western coast of Africa in Luanda, Livingstone first Europeans crossed the continent and went to the east coast of Africa in Quelimane.
