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Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage for international shipping.; Illustrated heavy brown boards, bevelled edges; a little worn and marked; corners a trifle rubbed; gilt titling and decoration still bright. Stitched bind a little frail, but intact. Many illustrations in text. Five fold-out maps, all present; the frontispiece map -- Map of Eastern Central Africa -- has become detached, but is laid-in. Stanley's own account -- the very stuff of legend -- of how he found the equally legendary and intrepid Livingstone. The cover illustration reproduces the meeting between Stanley and Livingstone, mutually raising their hats in greeting, with Stanley's famous remark, "Dr Livingstone, I presume". A popular Victorian joke has Livingstone responding, "Yes, my dear fellow, you do." ; 8vo (6" x 9"); 736 + 8pp pblr's cat. pages.

An account by Henry Morton Stanley about his expedition to find the missing missionary and explorer Dr. David Livingstone in Africa.