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STANLEY, H.M. In darkest Africa or the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria. Lond., 1890. 2 vols. bound in 6 'divisions'. W. many woodcut illustr. & 3 fold. maps. Or. pictorial cl. (Some wear to spine ends).
In Darkest Africa is the celebrated account of H.M. Stanley's 1887-1889 expedition to Lake Albert, to relieve the German physician and scientist E. Schnitzer (known as Emin Pasha). Following the Mahdist uprising Emin, the governor of Equatorial Sudan, had fled Sudan for Wadelai, close to Lake Albert, where he was trapped. His friends in Europe mounted a rescue and in 1887, Stanley arrived at Zanzibar. From there he undertook a harrowing journey through the rainforest, accompanied by a party of some 400. - It seems that the six cloth bindings of this subscription edition where intended to be discarded in order to bind the set into two volumes.€ 120
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