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‎My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Third edition.‎

‎London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, (ca. 1891), in-8vo, frontispiece + XXVI + 526 p., with 18 illustration and 1 folding map, light marginal foxing, small legacy stamp ‘Guggisberg’, original publisher’s pictorial green clothbound, light wear at spine ends and corners, fine copy.‎

‎Surgeon-General Thomas Heazle Parke (1857-1893) was an Irish doctor, explorer, soldier and naturalist. Parke campaigned with Henry Morton Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. This expedition lasted three years and many were saved from death by Parke's courage and medical skills. He was known as the 'man who had saved Stanley'. He thus became the first Irishman to cross the African continent. During the expedition Parke bought a pygmy girl. They travelled together for over a year and she nursed him through malaria. In the end he was forced to leave her behind because her eyes could not adapt to sunlight after the darkness of the forest. Image disp.‎