Blog Spotlight: Expedition Africa - Take a trip into the heart of Africa with the History Channel

Expedition Africa: Stanley and Livingstone is a unique type of adventure series. This isn't a show about a single person facing unsurmountable odds but rather a nostalgic look back at one of the most talked about voyages in the 1800s. Dr. David Livingstone was an important figure in 19th century British history. He explored Africa and worked tirelessly to stop the slave trade. In 1864 he headed into the heart of Africa and was not heard from. When months stretched into years, what happened to him became a legendary mystery. In 1871 the New York Herald commissioned civil war veteran and reporter Henry Stanley to mount a trip into the African interior. His voyage covered almost 1000 miles of wilderness and 8 months after starting out in Zanzibar he found Livingstone in Ujiji, a small village on the shore of Lake Tanganyika on November 10, 1871.* The History Channel together with Mark Burnett- best known for producing such shows as Survivor and The Apprentice, does something very different with Expedition Africa. Instead of sending people to survive in the wild and play stupid games, three experienced field scientists and explorers and a field war correspondent endeavor to follow in the footsteps of Stanley and his voyage and experience the wilderness and beauty as well as the hardships of traversing Africa on foot with only some basic maps and a compass to guide them.

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