The Last Expedition. Stanley's Fatal Journey Through The Congo

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Portrait
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 355 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 General Gordon and governor of southern Sudan. Instead of ten months, Stanleys trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as his column hacked its way through the Congo - the last great unexplored territory in Africa. Stanleys secret agenda was territorial expansion; and what is revealed so vividly in the accounts of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse.

ISBN: 9780749950637