by Henry M. Stanley · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486256672
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«Through the Dark Continent: Volume 1» is Henry M. Stanley's travel account, published by Dover Publications in paperback (480 pages, in English).
Between 1874 and 1877, Stanley traverses the great lakes of Central Africa, seeks the sources of the Nile, and descends the Congo River to the Atlantic. Despite disease, hunger, and conflicts with local populations, he perseveres and offers a detailed testimony of the peoples, flora, and fauna of the region.
First volume of a two-volume work; originally published in 1878, and this Dover edition is from 1988.
For readers interested in European exploration of Africa in the nineteenth century and in great tales of adventure and human endurance.
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Besides his discovery of Livingstone, he is mainly known for his search for the sources of the Nile and Congo rivers, the work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of the Belgians that enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region, and his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was knighted in 1897, and served in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist member for Lambeth North from 1895 to 1900.
