{"product_id":"finding-dr-livingstone-9780821425138","title":"Finding Dr. Livingstone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e“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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Foreword (G. Gryseels, RMCA)\u003cbr\u003e Foreword (D. Allard, KBF)\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and Editorial Notations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Documents\u003cbr\u003e Journal S.A. 73, Excerpts (January 1871–May 1872)\u003cbr\u003e Journal S.A. 7, Full Transcript (1871)\u003cbr\u003e Journal S.A. 11, Full Transcript (10 November 1871–Unyanyembe, 8 May 1872)\u003cbr\u003e Field Notebook S.A. 8, Full Transcript\u003cbr\u003e Field Notebook S.A. 9, Full Transcript\u003cbr\u003e Field Notebook S.A. 10, Full Transcript\u003cbr\u003e Account Book of the New York Herald Expedition to Central Africa (S.A. 74), Full Transcript\u003cbr\u003e Notebook S.A. 1, Excerpts for the Year 1871\u003cbr\u003e Muster Roll of Soldiers Engaged for the New York Herald Central African Expedition (S.A. 74), Full Transcript\u003cbr\u003e Journal S.A. 12 to Zanzibar, Excerpts (May 15–29, 1872)\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Contracts of Engagement of Employees for the Search for Livingstone\u003cbr\u003e Contract of Selim Heshmesh (S.A. 4734)\u003cbr\u003e Contract of Seedy Mubarak Bombay (S.A. 4744)\u003cbr\u003e Contract of Abdel Kader, Bunder Salaàm, Celim (S.A. 4745)\u003cbr\u003e Contract of W. L. Farquhar (S.A. 4746)\u003cbr\u003e Contract of Saboori Mkuba, Saboori Mdogo, and Kombo (S.A. 4748)\u003cbr\u003e Instructions to John W. Shaw (S.A. 2469)\u003cbr\u003e Journal S.A. 4, Excerpts (1869)\u003cbr\u003e Journal S.A. 5, Excerpts (1870)\u003cbr\u003e Letter of Introduction from John MacGregor to David Livingstone (S.A. 480)\u003cbr\u003e Letters from Francis R. Webb, American Consul in Zanzibar, to Stanley (S.A. 2598, 2654, 2655, 2657)\u003cbr\u003e Letters from John Webb, American Consul in Zanzibar, to Stanley (S.A. 2658, 2659)\u003cbr\u003e Letters from John Kirk, British Consul in Zanzibar, to Stanley (S.A. 2656, 2660)\u003cbr\u003e Letters from Dr. Livingstone to Stanley (S.A. 477, 478, 479)\u003cbr\u003e Letters from W. Oswell Livingstone to Stanley (S.A. 488)\u003cbr\u003e Letters from the New York Herald Staff in London to Stanley\u003cbr\u003e Finley Anderson (S.A. 2588, 2589)\u003cbr\u003e Douglas A. Levien (S.A. 2626)\u003cbr\u003e Letters from Stanley to J. Gordon Bennett (S.A. 6926, 6925)\u003cbr\u003e List of Letters Carried by Stanley from Dr. Livingstone (S.A. 4754)\u003cbr\u003e Contracts of African Soldiers with Uredi Manwa Sera as Captain to Serve\u003cbr\u003e Dr. Livingstone (S.A. 4749) and Contract of Mohammed bin Galfin (S.A. 4750)\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Kiswahili Words\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406008852823,"sku":"9780821425138","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780821425138.jpg?v=1730494225","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/finding-dr-livingstone-9780821425138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}