The Exploration Diaries Of H. M. Stanley..
Bound in original grey cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper, which is chipped at edges, including head and tail of spine. Extremities a little worn, but otherwise a very good copy.
£30.00
Publisher
William Kimber, 46 Wilton Place, S.W.1,
Place
London
Date
1961
Synopsis
Now first published from the original manuscripts. edited by richard stanley and alan neame.
Item Description
8vo. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 208 pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 8 pages of black and white plates. Map endpapers.
Notes
Edited version of the four notebooks of Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), Welsh-American journalist and African explorer, which had recently been discovered in Stanley's country seat. They cover his Second Central African Expedition, 1874-77, sponsored by the New York Herald and Daily Telegraph, from Zanzibar to Lake Victoria, which he circumnavigated, Lake Tanganyika and, discovering a source of the Congo, on to the Atlantic coast.
[Stock No. 25563]
Subjects
19th Century • Africa • Diaries • Exploration • Travel