In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria
first edition With 2 steel engravings and 150 illustrations and maps. With three maps in pockets at back of each volume. 2 vols. 8vo
1890 · New York
by Stanley, Henry M.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American Edition. With 2 steel engravings and 150 illustrations and maps. With three maps in pockets at back of each volume. 2 vols. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth, gilt. A bit rubbed, hinges to vol. I starting; Map of the Great Forest Region in vol. I with several splits along folds, some old repairs along verso, no loss. Very good minus. First American Edition. With 2 steel engravings and 150 illustrations and maps. With three maps in pockets at back of each volume. 2 vols. 8vo. In Darkest Africa retells Stanley's adventures on his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, governor of the Equatorial Province of Egypt, who was cut off after the fall of Khartoum. The expedition crawled at a snail's pace, covering only three or four hundred yards in an hour. Stanley nearly died of fever himself and he brought out of the forest only a third of the men he took in with him. This adventure, with descriptions of the forest and its animal life, as well as both vivid and valuable ethnological data regarding the Pygmy tribes, forms the content of In Darkest Africa.
A satisfactory copy of this classic of African exploration by the man who found Livingston. (Inventory #: 238899)
A satisfactory copy of this classic of African exploration by the man who found Livingston. (Inventory #: 238899)