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Book SynopsisNever-before-published documents from Henry Stanley's historic 1871 expedition to what is now Tanzania in search of David Livingstone recasts Stanley's sensationalized narrative with new details about the people involved, their systems of knowledge, commerce, and labor, the natural environment, and the spread of modern colonial powers in Africa.
Trade Review“Henry Morton Stanley’s expedition in search of David Livingstone is one of the iconic events in the history of African exploration. Yet what we knew about the expedition came mainly from Stanley’s sensationalist published account. A far more complicated picture emerges from his original field notes and journals, which are brought to light at last in this superbly edited volume.” -- Dane Kennedy, author of The Last Blank Spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia
“An invaluable resource of original documents … an extraordinary work of meticulous and detailed research and scholarship that is especially and unreservedly recommended as a core addition to personal, professional, community college, and university libraries [and] reading lists.” * Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Foreword (G. Gryseels, RMCA)
Foreword (D. Allard, KBF)
Abbreviations and Editorial Notations
Introduction
Documents
Journal S.A. 73, Excerpts (January 1871–May 1872)
Journal S.A. 7, Full Transcript (1871)
Journal S.A. 11, Full Transcript (10 November 1871–Unyanyembe, 8 May 1872)
Field Notebook S.A. 8, Full Transcript
Field Notebook S.A. 9, Full Transcript
Field Notebook S.A. 10, Full Transcript
Account Book of the New York Herald Expedition to Central Africa (S.A. 74), Full Transcript
Notebook S.A. 1, Excerpts for the Year 1871
Muster Roll of Soldiers Engaged for the New York Herald Central African Expedition (S.A. 74), Full Transcript
Journal S.A. 12 to Zanzibar, Excerpts (May 15–29, 1872)
Appendix
Contracts of Engagement of Employees for the Search for Livingstone
Contract of Selim Heshmesh (S.A. 4734)
Contract of Seedy Mubarak Bombay (S.A. 4744)
Contract of Abdel Kader, Bunder Salaàm, Celim (S.A. 4745)
Contract of W. L. Farquhar (S.A. 4746)
Contract of Saboori Mkuba, Saboori Mdogo, and Kombo (S.A. 4748)
Instructions to John W. Shaw (S.A. 2469)
Journal S.A. 4, Excerpts (1869)
Journal S.A. 5, Excerpts (1870)
Letter of Introduction from John MacGregor to David Livingstone (S.A. 480)
Letters from Francis R. Webb, American Consul in Zanzibar, to Stanley (S.A. 2598, 2654, 2655, 2657)
Letters from John Webb, American Consul in Zanzibar, to Stanley (S.A. 2658, 2659)
Letters from John Kirk, British Consul in Zanzibar, to Stanley (S.A. 2656, 2660)
Letters from Dr. Livingstone to Stanley (S.A. 477, 478, 479)
Letters from W. Oswell Livingstone to Stanley (S.A. 488)
Letters from the New York Herald Staff in London to Stanley
Finley Anderson (S.A. 2588, 2589)
Douglas A. Levien (S.A. 2626)
Letters from Stanley to J. Gordon Bennett (S.A. 6926, 6925)
List of Letters Carried by Stanley from Dr. Livingstone (S.A. 4754)
Contracts of African Soldiers with Uredi Manwa Sera as Captain to Serve
Dr. Livingstone (S.A. 4749) and Contract of Mohammed bin Galfin (S.A. 4750)
Glossary of Kiswahili Words
Bibliography
Index
