How I found Livingstone - Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London 1890
Good condition, spine strengthened, new endpapers fitted, pages reglued after removal of rusty staples, as a result binding is tight but fragile.

A record of the expedition sent in search of Dr Livingstone and of the adventures and discoveries made along the way. The narrative includes Stanley's four month residence with Livingstone and a memoir of Dr Livingstone, along with illustrations and maps...

Paul Belloni du Chaillu (1835-1903) was a French-American explorer and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas and the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia. During his travels from 1856 to 1859 he observed numerous gorillas, known to non-locals in prior centuries only from an unreliable report by Hanno the Navigator of Carthage in the 5th century BC, and known to scientists in the preceding years only by a few skeletons. He brought back dead specimens, and presented himself as the first white person to have seen them. A subsequent expedition, from 1863 to 1865, enabled him to confirm the accounts given by the ancients of a pygmy people inhabiting the African forests. Du Chaillu sold his hunted gorillas to the Natural History Museum in London and his cannibal skulls to other European collections...