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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Both volumes are in Very Good plus condition in three-quarter red leather binding with marbled boards and end papers. Light foxing to preliminary pages and light wear to spine ends. Interiors are clean and without marks. Both pocket maps are present. At the turn of the 19th century the interior of the African continent was largely unknown to the American and European public. Accounts of expeditions there meant Danger! Henry Stanley had already achieved fame from his quest to find Dr. Livingstone, and in 1888 he led an expedition to come to the aid of Mehmed Emin Pasha. In Darkest Africa is his account of what happened. The Pasha had assumed the title "Emin Effendi Hakim" (the faithful physician) while employed as a doctor in Khartoum, and had later been appointed the local governor in the southern Sudan. (Confused yet?) He had been forced from Khartoum into retreat to the shores of Lake Albert by a revolt led by the Islamic holy man known as the "Mahdi." Stanley had met Emin on an earlier expedition, and was felt to be the logical choice to lead this new campaign. Volume One of this two-volume set details the political events that lead up to the revolt, and the progress of Stanley from the mouth of the Congo River to Lake Albert (in present day Uganda) a journey of over 1,400 miles. Volume Two chronicles Stanley's reaching the Emin Pasha and finally persuading him to abandon Lake Albert in 1889. This is an extremely important book for all those interested in the history of Africa, both for its descriptions of indigenous peoples and terrain and for what it reveals about the imperialist attitudes that shaped the course of events.
