THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY

Edited by his wife Dorothy Stanley

With sixteen photogravures and a map

First edition: xvii, 539 pp with frontispiece portrait, 15 plates, folded map, original blue cloth boards with gilt title and vignette on the upper cover and spine. Overall a good copy with small tears to spine end paper

Stanley wrote the first nine chapters before his death, and Lady Stanley drew the remainder from her husband's journals, letters, and notebooks.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Besides his discovery of Livingstone, he is mainly known for his search for the sources of the Nile and Congo rivers, the work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of the Belgians that enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region, and his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was knighted in 1897, and served in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist member for Lambeth North from 1895 to 1900.

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