"[In 1959] at Furzehill Place where Stanley spent his last days, four notebooks were discovered and these proved to be the day-to-day records of the expedition, the diary that [Stanley] rigorously entered up throughout his epic journey. The notepads, despite their vicissitudes through jungles and down cataracts, are in excellent condition, only a little yellowed from age." Here they are "first published from the original manuscripts"
Description: 24 x 16 cm., 208 pp. Introduction; Zanzibar - Lake Victoria; Circumnavigation of Lake Victoria; Lake Victoria - Lake Tanganyika; Lake Tanganyika - The Atlantic Coast. With maps on the end papers and 2 b/w plates.
Book ID 985
