Never-before-published documents from Henry Stanley’s historic 1871 expedition to what is now Tanzania in search of David Livingstone recasts Stanley’s sensationalized narrative with new details about the people involved, their systems of knowledge, commerce, and labor, the natural environment, and the spread of modern colonial powers in Africa.
Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi is curator of the Henry M. Stanley Archives and Collections at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium). With James L. Newman, she edited Adventures of an American Traveler in Turkey by H.M. Stanley. Her past exhibitions include Dr Livingstone, I Presume (2013). She is in charge of archives and history training programs for graduate students, archivists, and librarians from Central Africa. James L. Newman is emeritus professor of geography at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. His previous works include The Peopling of Africa: A Geographic Interpretation, Imperial Footprints: Henry M. Stanley’s African Journey, Paths without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa, and Encountering Gorillas: A Chronicle of Discovery, Exploitation, Understanding, and Survival. He lives in Syracuse, New York.
“Henry Morton Stanley’s expedition in search of David Livingstone
is one of the iconic events in the history of African exploration.
Yet what we knew about the expedition came mainly from Stanley’s
sensationalist published account. A far more complicated picture
emerges from his original field notes and journals, which are
brought to light at last in this superbly edited volume.”
*Dane Kennedy, author of The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa
and Australia*
“An invaluable resource of original documents … an extraordinary
work of meticulous and detailed research and scholarship that is
especially and unreservedly recommended as a core addition to
personal, professional, community college, and university libraries
[and] reading lists.”
*Midwest Book Review*
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