How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa: Including an Account of Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone
How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa: Including an Account of Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone
How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa: Including an Account of Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone

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How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa: Including an Account of Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone

STANLEY, Henry M.

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In November 1871, journalist H. M. Stanley located David Livingstone in Ujiji, a village on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. Upon returning to civilization, Stanley published this diary of his expedition, describing his adventures and discoveries in Central Africa and his four months' residence with the famous missionary. Stanley was sent by James Gordon Bennett Jr. (portrait between Contents and Introduction), the vehemently anti-British, hard-drinking 28-year-old editor of the New York Herald, who was mainly interested in proving that an American could find Livingstone, when the British apparently could not. Stanley's famous greeting, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" appears on p. 412 next to an engraving illustrating the event.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: James Adam and Company
  • Edition: n/a
  • Date Published: 1873
  • Place Published: Toronto
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    xxiii, 736, [4] p. 24 cm. 28 full-page illustrations, 25 smaller illustrations, 6 maps. Brown cloth with gold impressing. Corners worn, small tears in spine ends, front hinge cracking internally. Ink inscription from 1873 on half title. Some foxing. Small holes in edges of title page. Tears in fold-out frontispiece map. One signature loosening in centre of book with attempted tape repair.

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