Henry Morton Stanley: 'How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adv...

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Henry Morton Stanley: 'How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; Including Four Months Residence with Dr. Livingstone', London, Sampson Low, 1872, 1st edition, mounted photographic frontispiece, 6 maps and plans (of which 4 folding), plus numerous full page plates and illustrations (collated complete as per list), xxiii,736pp., old half calf gilt (worn). Henry Morton Stanley's account of how he found David Livingstone. Stanley searched for Livingstone in Central Africa, setting out to Zanzibar in 1871, eventually finding the lost explorer in November 1871 in Ujiji, in present day Tanzania. An exciting and embellished account of an important voyage that garnered much contemporary media attention.