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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. G/VG, used, hc, xii-xix, maps, 355 pages. Interior has pencil notations on the ffep and pencil underlining and circling scattered through the text, pages near bright, binding tight. Slight edge wear to dj, no chips or tears. BCE.…

brown & tan hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (#1 in # line). xix+355p. "who's who". 5 b&w maps. glossy b&w photos & illustrations. bibliography. index. biography. history of africa. history of egypt. world history. tippu tib. emin pasha. ~ The Last Expedition is the harrowing true story of Henry Morton Stanley's final trek across Africa to rescue Emin Pasha, the lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan, Emin Pasha had been cut off from the outside world for more than three years by an Islamic jihad to the north, warring African kingdoms to the south and east, and brutal slave traders to the west. Expected to take no more than ten months, the expedition took almost three years and cost hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives as Stanley and his men hacked their way across the last great, unexplored territory in the heart of Africa: the forbidding Ituri forest. Advertised as a mission of mercy, Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company, and what is revealed so vividly in the diaries of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse. The expedition took whatever it wanted from the Africans, and when the Africans were killed defending their possessions, they didn't even rate an entry in Stanley's journal. Although he expected it to be the crowning achievement in a career that had already made him "the greatest explorer in African history," Stanley's last expedition disintegrated into a nightmare of disease and starvation, desertion and rebellion, and brutality and savagery that brought to an end an era of European exploration in Africa that had lasted almost one hundred years.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 355 pages. Hardcover. Spine cocked. Tan cover boards, brown quarter cloth. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, very good. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. The story of Stanley's last disastrous expedition. Record # 32261.

First Edition. 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 north and was at the mercy of brutal slave traders. 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 territory in Africa. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company, and what is revealed so vividly in the diaries of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse. The expedition took whatever it wanted from the Africans, and when Africans were killed defending their possessions, they didn't even rate an entry in Stanley's journal; 355 pages; Description: xix, 355 p. , [16] p. Of plates : ill. , maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Emin Pasha, 1840-1892. Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton) , 1841-1904. Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1887-1889) Africa, Central --History --1884-1960 1 Kg.…

First Edition. 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 north and was at the mercy of brutal slave traders. 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 territory in Africa. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company, and what is revealed so vividly in the diaries of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse. The expedition took whatever it wanted from the Africans, and when Africans were killed defending their possessions, they didn't even rate an entry in Stanley's journal; 355 pages; Description: xix, 355 p. , [16] p. Of plates : ill. , maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Emin Pasha, 1840-1892. Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton) , 1841-1904. Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1887-1889) Africa, Central --History --1884-1960 1 Kg.…

Hard Cover. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original brown backed boards gilt in dustwrapper; pp. xxvi, 356 (last blank), with maps & illustrations. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. New York: Norton [2005]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. NEW. MINT. Very fine/very fine in all respects. A pristine unread copy. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on title page. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. All books shipped in sturdy boxes. Smoke free enviornment. 0.0. Signed by Author(s).…