Hardcover
1890 · New York
by Stanley, Henry M.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Hardcover. G+/Fair, cover is heavily worn, spine less so. Front hinge is loose. Owner's inscription inside. Pages are clean. Maps good.. Textured green cloth; map of Africa; gilt lettering. No dust jackets. Vol. II: xvi, 540 pp. with bw frontis (tissue guarded) and several bw plates/illustrations; 2 folding maps in back pocket. Stanley's classic about Africa. "Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who had made his name after ‘finding' Dr David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary and explorer who the western world had lost contact with while on an expedition to discover the source of the Nile. After ‘finding' Livingstone, Stanley continued to explore the continent; between 1886 and 1890 he led the expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha. In Darkest Africa (1890) is his account as leader of the controversial Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. - from the British Library. Not a collector's copy but still has some shelf appeal and is candidate for re-bind.
(Inventory #: 183084)