Titre
Through the Dark Continent
Auteur
Stanley, Henry M.
Langue
Anglais
Éditeur
Harper and Brothers 1878 First US Edition. 2 volumes
Prix
€ 650,00(Excl. toute livraison)
Détails
8vo, publisher’s de luxe half morocco over marbled boards, lightly rubbed, spines gilt, marbled end papers. xiv, 522; ix, 566 pages with 3 folding maps, 2 in pockets at end of each volume, many plates and illustrations. Inside Fine, appears unused.
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This book was offered to the public in 3 variants; the well known cloth binding for $ 10, in full sheep for $ 12 and this most expensive one in half morocco for $ 15.
When Livingstone died in 1873, Stanley resolved to take up the exploration of Africa where he had left off. The problem of the Nile sources and the nature of the central African lakes had been only partly solved by earlier explorers. Circumnavigating Lake Victoria, Stanley confirmed the explorer John H. Speke’s estimate of its size and importance. Lake Tanganyika was next explored and found to have no connection with the Nile system. Stanley and his men pressed on west to the Lualaba River that proved to be the headstream of the Congo. There they joined forces with the Arab trader Tippu Tib, who accompanied them for a few laps downriver, then left Stanley to fight his way first to Stanley Pool (now Malebo Pool) and then (partly overland) down to the great cataracts he named Livingstone Falls.
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