And so, we return to where we began, with Stanley’s account, How I Found Livingstone, 1872. Whatever one’s opinion of Stanley, and he certainly divides the crowd, his background in journalism gives his books a readability lacking in other explorers. This book, describing the meeting of the two men in Ujiji in present day Tanzania increased cemented the popularity of Livingstone and made Stanley’s reputation in Britain, despite hostility from the Royal Geographical Society who resented an American finding their local hero. One of the key books in African exploration, good copies are hard to find. It would have been better in two volumes and tends to be fall out of its binding. Our copy in the original pictorial cloth is a superior example.
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