Henry M. Stanley – How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa. – 1872

How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa;Including four months residence with Dr, Livingstone.By Henry M. Stanley,Travelling correspondant of the "New York Herald."Illustrations and Maps.London:Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle.1872.Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of Central Africa and his research of Central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.Stanley landed in Zanzibar on 6 january 1871 to begin the search for Dr. Livingstone, the Scottisch missionary and explorer whose wherabouts in Central Africa had become a question of international concern since his last letter of May 1869. The journey lasted 235 deays.On the morning of 3 November, with an American flag flaying on a pole, Stanley led his remaining fifty-four men down a mountain toward a lake and his historic meeting with Dr. Livingstone.Stanley reportedly asked "Dr. Livingstone , I presume?"A popular joke has Livingstone responding "Yes my dear fellow, you do".Stanley returned to Europe to a hero's welcome.He received the gratitude of Livingstone's family and official thanks from Queen Victoria.The public's appetite for his published story was voracious!An uncommon first edition. Illustrated with a frontspiece, four folding maps, twenty seven plates,... lees verder bij Catawiki