The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo

Traces the nineteenth-century, three-year African expedition of Henry Morton Stanley, a journey that was launched with the official intention of rescuing jihad victim lieutenant Emin Pasha of the southern Sudan, in an account that reveals Stanley's secret agenda of territorial expansion and the brutal killings of thousands of Africans. 20,000 first printing.

The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through The Congo

History

Liebowitz, Daniel

Pearson, Charles

Africa

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A noble rescue mission descends into a nightmare of cruelty, starvation, and cannibalism, bringing to a close the European exploration of Africa. "Liebowitz and Pearson have written an illuminating saga of the dark days of colonialism."—National Geographic Adventure Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Emin had been cut off by an Islamic jihad to the north and was at the mercy of brutal slave traders. Instead of ten months, the trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as Stanley's column hacked its way across the last great, unexplored territory in Africa. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company, and what is revealed so vividly in the diaries of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse. The expedition took whatever it wanted from the Africans, and when Africans were killed defending their possessions, they didn't even rate an entry in Stanley's journal. .

W.W.Norton&Company

Trained as a physician, Kirk was also an explorer who traveled with David Livingstone across Africa, a botanist, and a diplomat who played a key role in ending the African slave trade and influencing the evolution of European-African relations during the Victorian Age. This is the first modern biography of Kirk. Includes many b&amp;w maps, photos, and illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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