Finding Dr. Livingstone by Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi, James L. ... - 9780821425138

Finding Dr. LivingstoneA History in Documents from the Henry Morton Stanley Archives\nAuthor(s): Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi, James L. Newman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821425138, 978-0821425138\nSynopsis\nThis eye-opening perspective on Stanley's expedition reveals new details about the Victorian explorer and his African crew on the brink of the colonial Scramble for Africa.\n In 1871, Welsh American journalist Henry M. Stanley traveled to Zanzibar in search of the \""missing\"" Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone. A year later, Stanley emerged to announce that he had \""found\"" and met with Livingstone on Lake Tanganyika. His alleged utterance there, \""Dr. Livingstone, I presume,\"" was one of the most famous phrases of the nineteenth century, and Stanley's book, How I Found Livingstone, became an international bestseller.\n In this fascinating volume Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi and James L. N.