lxxix, 552 pages, [6] leaves of plates (2 folding): illustrations, portraits (1 as frontispiece, with tissue guard), folding maps. Embossed pictorial cloth with gilding, worn on edges of spine. Originally published in 1872.
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) was born in Wales, never knew his father and was abandoned by his mother. Brought up in a workhouse for the poor, where he was abused and assaulted, he moved to the United States in 1859. He fought on both sides in the American Civil War. In the late 1860s he became a journalist and worked in Ethiopia, Spain and the Ottoman Empire before setting out in 1871 to find Dr David Livingstone, of whom nothing had been heard for some months. The two met on 10 November 1871. His achievements kept him in the public eye and later saw him elected to Westminister as an MP. He was knighted in 1899.
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