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Stanley, Henry Morton
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- Stanley, Henry Morton
- How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; including Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone. London: Sampson Low, Marston [&c.], 1872
- Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (220 x 135mm.), xxiv, 736pp., 8pp. adverts, 5 maps, photographic frontispiece and 28 plates, illustrations, original brown illustrated cloth, dark green endpapers, bevelled edges, slipcase
Literature
Czech (Africa) p.152; Mendelssohn (1979) IV, p.379
Catalogue Note
"One of the most famous books in the broad spectrum of African exploration" (Czech).
Stanley, at the instruction of James Gordon Bennett Jr., publisher of the New York Herald, set out to 'find' Livingstone in 1869. No news of the Scottish explorer had been heard for two years, and it was not until November 1871 that Stanley finally succeeded in locating him at Ujiji, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Stanley, at the instruction of James Gordon Bennett Jr., publisher of the New York Herald, set out to 'find' Livingstone in 1869. No news of the Scottish explorer had been heard for two years, and it was not until November 1871 that Stanley finally succeeded in locating him at Ujiji, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.