A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation, and cannibalism, bringing to a close the European exploration of Africa. "Liebowitz and Pearson have written an illuminating saga of the dark days of colonialism."-"National Geographic Adventure"
Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the 19th century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Instead of ten months, the trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as Stanley's column hacked its way across the last great, unexplored ...
This volume presents a biography of Sir John Kirk, one of David Livingstone's key colleagues, who later became an important figure in dismantling the eastern slave trade.
A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation and cannibalism - bringing to a close the European exploration of Africa. Henry Morton Stanley - the man who found Dr Livingstone - undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century. The ostensible aim was to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the murdered ...
Description: 2005, 1st edition, fine condition, with a fine dust jacket, with a priced unclipped dust jacket flap, published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 355 pages. A harrowing account of Henry Monton Stanley's final trek across Africa to rescue Emin Pasha, along with his secret agenda for the expansion of the British East India Company. Illustrated with photographs, and a selected bibliography. read more
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