In Darkest Africa, Or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria
STANLEY, Henry Morton
New Edition, corrected and revised throughout. [With a new Preface by the Author].
UNUSUALLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Published: Sampson Low Marston & Co., 1897
Stock code: 50458
Price: £90.00
8vo., with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 35 engraved plates, very numerous wood-engraved illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and large folding coloured map (one or two small repairs at fold edges not affecting engraved surface), free endpapers browned; original dark red pictorial cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy.
With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Bright copy of Stanley's famous account of his 1886 Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, first published in two volumes in 1890. His route along the Congo brought terrible hardship and considerable loss of life before he returned with Pasha at the end of 1890. This corrected and revised issue has a new preface written by Stanley expressly for this edition.