Finding Dr. Livingstone - A History in Documents from the Henry Morton Stanley Archives (Paperback)

This eye-opening perspective on Stanley's expedition reveals new details about the Victorian explorer and his African crew on the brink of the colonial Scramble for Africa. In 1871, Welsh American journalist Henry M. Stanley traveled to Zanzibar in search of the "missing" Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone. A year later, Stanley emerged to announce that he had "found" and met with Livingstone on Lake Tanganyika. His alleged utterance there, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume," was one of the most famous phrases of the nineteenth century, and Stanley's book, How I Found Livingstone, became an international bestseller. In this fascinating volume Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi and James L. Newman transcribe and annotate the entirety of Stanley's documentation, making available for the first time in print a broader narrative of Stanley's journey that includes never-before-seen primary source documents--worker contracts, vernacular plant names, maps, ruminations on life, lines of poetry, bills of lading--all scribbled in his field notebooks. Finding Dr. Livingstone is a crucial resource for those interested in exploration and colonization in the Victorian era, the scientific knowledge of the time, and the peoples and conditions of Tanzania prior to its colonization by Germany.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2023
First published:	2020
Editors:	Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi • James L. Newman
Foreword by:	Guido Gryseels • Dominique Allard
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Laminated cover / Card cover
Pages:	560
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-2513-8
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Geographical discovery & exploration Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > History > African history > General Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8214-2513-7
Barcode:	9780821425138

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