About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780393059038ISBN:0393059030
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. VG+ to Fine; binding solid; text clean. VG, lightly rubbed, dust jacket; no chipping. 355 p. Adventure & Exploration; Africa. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780393059038ISBN:0393059030
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. A clean, crisp and unmarked copy. xix, 355 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography, index. Dust jacket in new mylar cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780393059038ISBN:0393059030
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. A clean, crisp and unmarked copy. xix, 355 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography, index. Dust jacket in new mylar cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780393059038ISBN:0393059030
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. A clean, crisp and unmarked copy. xix, 355 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography, index. Dust jacket in new mylar cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780393059038ISBN:0393059030
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0393059030. Tiny remainder dot on bottom of text block; 1.4 x 9.3 x 6.2 Inches; 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 undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Emin had been cut off by an Islamic jihad to the ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. 2005
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780393059038ISBN:0393059030
Description: ISBN 9780393059038. Hardback. First Printing. Near Fine Condition book in a Near Fine Condition Dust jacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. As new condition. read more
"This book is about Stanley's journey through the Congo to save the Emin Pasha after a revolt took away his power. But the expedition lost more men and supplies through the choices Stanley made. A look into a great British Explorer that was a horrible man."
"You can't make this stuff up. These explorer stories are amazing in the ordeals they endured. Given how soft humankind is nowadays, I doubt any of us transported back to these times would have survived. How they did it is beyond me."
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