c1890 How I Found Livingstone Henry Stanley Folding Map Exploration

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! How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa Including Four Months' Residence with Dr Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley c.1890 - London - Sampson Low, Marston and Company 7" by 4.5"; (lxxix) 540pp. DETAILS An autobiographical account of the famous meeting between Henry M. Stanley and David Livingstone. Livingstone completely lost contact with the outside world for six years and was ill for most of the last four years of his life. Only one of his 44 letter dispatches made it to Zanzibar. One surviving letter to Horace Waller, made available to the public in 2010 by its owner Peter Beard, reads: "I am terribly knocked up but this is for your own eye only, ... Doubtful if I live to see you again ..." Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent to find him by the New York Herald newspaper in 1869, found Livingstone in the town of Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika on 27 October 1871, greeting him with the now famous words "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" to which he responded "Yes, and I feel thankful that I am here to welcome you." These famous words may have been a fabrication, as Stanley later tore out the pages of this encounter in his diary. Even Livingstone's account of this encounter does not mention these words. With two plates and a folding map to the rear. CONDITION In an armorial read more
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