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We are happy to answer any questions: springbokbooks@gmail.com2 volumes. The American first printing of the first edition in the original Deluxe Half-Leather and Marbled Boards binding. Numerous illustrations and maps throughout, including 34 full page plates and two very large folding maps in rear pockets of each volume. An unusually nice set, internally near pristine. This may be the nicest set of these books anywhere! The story of the Anglo-American expedition to Central Africa, commanded by Stanley and undertaken between 1874 and 1877. The discovery of the course of the Congo, though the greatest, was but one of the many geographical problems solved during this memorable expedition. Vast in size, "the procession that departed from Bagamoyo (Tanzania) on 17 November 1874 stretched for more than half a mile and included dozens of men carrying sections of the Lady Alice, the boat named for his seventeen-year-old fiancée, with which Stanley intended to explore Lakes Victoria and…

A detailed narrative of Stanley's expedition through Africa from the eastern to the western coast, shedding light on the uncharted interior of the continent.