THE EXPLORATION DIARIES OF H. M. STANLEY. Now first published from the original manuscripts. Edited by Richard Stanley and Alan Neame.

STANLEY, H. M. STANLEY, RICHARD and NEAME, ALAN, edited by.

Published by William Kimber, 46 Wilton Place, S.W.1, London, 1961

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8vo. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 208 pp. 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. Illustrated by 8 pages of black and white plates. Map endpapers. 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. TRAVEL AFRICA EXPLORATION TRAVEL AFRICA DIARIES 19TH CENTURY TRAVEL. Seller Inventory # 25563

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Title: THE EXPLORATION DIARIES OF H. M. STANLEY. ...

Publisher: William Kimber, 46 Wilton Place, S.W.1, London

Publication Date: 1961