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STANLEY Henry Morton
Through the dark continent or the sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone river to the atlantic ocean
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London 1878, 14,5x23cm, 2 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur.
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Edition originale. Reliures de l'éditeur en pleine percaline marron, dos lisses illustrés en noir de paysages africains, mentions dorées de l'éditeur en queues des dos, premiers plats décorés d'illustrations en noir représentant des paysages africains et frappés en leurs centres d'une carte de l'Afrique traversée par le fleuve Livingstone doré encadré des deux lacs Victoria et Tanganika dorés, gardes et contreplats de papier jaune, coins légèrement émoussés. Ouvrage orné de 2portraits en frontispice, de 8 cartes, de 2 grandes cartes dépliantes contenues dans une pochette en chaque fin de volume, ainsi que de 33 planches hors-texte et de nombreuses illustrations dans le texte. Deux petites taches noires sur le second plat du premier volume. Agréable exemplaire. - Photos sur www.Edition-originale.com -
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2 book(s) with the same title
Through the Dark Continent or the sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. - [""ONE OF THE GREATEST JOURNEYS OF ALL TIME""]
London, Sampson Low, 1878. 8vo. 2 volumes, both in publisher’s original dark brown pictorially decorated cloth, with an elaborate pattern depicting the continent of Africa in black with the Nile crossing it in gilt. Below, also in black, a scene depicting natives roving on a river. Title and author in gilt lettering to front boards and spines. Light wear to extremities, mainly to upper and lower part of capitals. 3 cm tear to lower part of front hindge on vol. 2, otherwise fine and clean. XIV, (2), 522"" IX, 566, 32 (publisher's booklist, dated April 1878) pp. + 2 frontispiece portraits, 10 maps including 2 large folding maps in pockets at rear, 33 wood-engraved plates and many illustrations in the text.
First edition of this landmark account, ""One of the greatest journeys of all time"" (Jeal, Life of Stanley, p.202), on the search for the sources of the Nile. This epic journey, lasting for over two and a half years completed the work of Burton, Speke and Livingstone. ""The procession that departed from Bagamoyo (Tanzania) on 17 November 1874 stretched for more than half a mile and included dozens of men carrying sections of the Lady Alice, the boat named for his seventeen-year-old fiancée, with which Stanley intended to explore Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika and Livingstone's Lualaba River. During the next two and a half years, the expedition would struggle in temperatures reaching as high as 138 degrees" the powerful Emperor Mtesa of Uganda and the Wanyoro chief Mirambo would consume a great deal of Stanley's time and test his diplomatic skills he would have to negotiate with a notorious Arab ivory and slave trader named Tippu-Tib for safe passage of his men through the great rain forest" and he and his men would fight more than thirty skirmishes and battles on land and water against hostile tribes.The geographic prizes Stanley achieved on this expedition were unparalleled. (See the two Stanley maps.) He spent almost two months circumnavigating Lake Victoria, confirming that the only outlet was at Ripon Falls and hence establishing for good, he thought, the source of the Nile. He scouted Lake Albert, then moved south and west to Lake Tanganyika, which he also circumnavigated, proving it had no connection with Lake Albert. Stanley then solved the remaining geographical puzzle, determining that the Lualaba was not part of the Niger or Nile rivers but ultimately flowed into the Congo. He reached the Atlantic Ocean on 9 August 1877, after a journey of more than seven thousand miles, in utter exhaustion. Back in London, he learned that Alice had not waited for him."" (Delaney, Princeton Visual Materials, online). Mansell IV p. 379 Hilmy, II, p.258 Mendelssohn (1979) IV, p.379.
Through the dark Continent or the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down to the livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. Map and Illustrations. With a New Preface by the Author, written for this Edition. 2 Vols. - [THE TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSERY EDITION]
London, George Newnes, 1899. Royal 8vo. Both volumes in one original red full pictorial cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. All edges gilt. Very light wear to spine ends. 2 frontispieces. XXXII,400" XI,419 pp., 32 plates, 7 maps (one folding), textillustrations. Old owners name on half-title. Clean and fine.
The attractive twentieth-anniversery edition, with a preface ""reviewing a few of the amazing changes that have taken place in the regions described in the book"" since the first publication in 1878.
