Henry M. Stanley IN DARKEST AFRICA: RARE 1st U.S. ed 1890 - 2 vols, Folding Maps

This is a rare 1st U.S. edition of "In Darkest Africa" by Henry M. Stanley, published in 1890 by Charles Scribner's Sons. It is a hardcover edition focusing on Africa. Book Summary : Stanley's account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1888-1890, a mission undertaken in the service of King Leopold of Belgium – nominally to rescue Emin Pasha, governor of Equatoria, who by the mid-1880s had found himself isolated and under attack by Mahdist forcest; but with the tacit intent of annexing further territories in the ever-expanding Belgian colony of Congo.

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