How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; Including Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone

(Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, 1984) 705415139. 'Classics of Exploration' series. Text facsimile of the 1872 edition by Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, and Searle. 8vo; original brown padded leatherette cover, lettered in gilt, with borders ruled in gilt, red, and blind; a.e.g.; marbled effect to endpapers; pp. xxxiii + (i) + 736, incl. index; several maps, largely folding; line drawings in text; silk marker. Loosely inserted synopsis by the publishers. Occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "How I Found Livingstone is not only a great chapter in the exploration of Africa, but a classic of journalism, too. Stanley's encounter was one of the greatest scoops in history. His greatest weakness - his ignorance of the business of exploration - he turned into an advantage. He saw everything with a fresh eye, and he described it with an enthusiastic lucidity. How he mounted his expedition from the island of Zanzibar, how he launched it into the interior: his account could have been a guide for his successors. He bribed and negotiated his way through hostile or suspicious tribes, but his diplomacy was always backed by his rifle. ... When they met, in November 1871, at the village of Ujiji, his quarry was ill and perilously low in supplies of all kinds. In his own journal, Livingstone wrote: 'But when my spirits were at their lowest ebb, the Good Samaritan was at hand.'" .