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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.
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.
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